search-logo
Uri Avnery
51 - 60 From 113 result
Who benefits from the Palestinian unity government?
Uri Avnery How does a football club choose its team? The simple way is the usual one: each side has a manager, who chooses his team. No problem. Now the Israeli government has hit on a new way: Our manager appoints ...
Israeli army’s digital rebellion
Uri Avnery Just before Israel’s 66th Independence Day, the country acquired a new national hero. If it is true that every nation gets the national heroes it deserves, it was a rather worrying spectacle. The video clip that turned David Adamov ...
The fight for the word ‘peace’
Uri Avnery Annexation starts with words. Words convey ideas. Words implant concepts in the minds of their hearers and speakers. Once they are firmly established, everything else follows.  When Vladimir Putin last week restored the old name of “New Russia” ...
The Oslo Accords, 20 years later
Uri Avnery The death of Ron Pundak, one of the original Israeli architects of the 1993 Oslo agreement, brought that historic event back into the public eye. Gideon Levy reminded us that the Rightist rabble-rousers, in their furious onslaught on ...
‘Poof’ goes the peace process!
Uri Avnery Poor John Kerry. This week he emitted a sound that was more expressive than pages of diplomatic babble. In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations committee, he explained how the actions of the Israeli government had torpedoed ...
The monster on the hill
Uri Avnery There is nothing better than a scandal every week. A juicy scandal excites people, engages the media, takes our minds off matters like war and peace, occupation and apartheid. Like “panem et circenses” (bread and entertainment) in ancient ...
Changing the flag
Uri Avnery New Zealand has decided to change its flag. The old flag is based on the British one, the Union Jack, which signifies the union of England, Scotland and Ireland. But what does this flag mean for today’s New ...
A hundred years later
Uri Avnery There is an old Chinese curse that says: “May you live in historic times!” (If there isn’t, there should be.) This week was a historic time. The Crimea seceded from Ukraine. Russia annexed it. A dangerous situation. No ...
A counter-coalition in Israeli politics
Uri Avnery Something very important happened this week in the most unlikely of places: the Knesset. On the agenda were three laws, one worse than the other. One was about “governance”. Its main provision raises the “electoral threshold” – i.e. ...
Putin: A cold-blooded, calculating operator
Uri Avnery Benjamin Netanyahu is very good at making speeches, especially to Jews, neocons and such, who jump up and applaud wildly at everything he says, including that tomorrow the sun will rise in the west. The question is: is ...
< Previous Next >