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Their mothers, their fathers
Uri Avnery It is the summer of 1941. Five youngsters – three young men and two young women – meet in a bar and spend a happy evening, enjoying each moment, getting merry, dancing forbidden foreign dances. They have grown ...
Three women who caught the eye
Uri Avnery This is a declaration of love. Three loves, actually. I love Achinoam Nini. I love her from afar. I have never met her. I love her for what she did a few weeks ago. The Israeli organization of composers and writers ...
Shulamit Aloni: An Israeli peace advocate
URI AVNERY Pete Seeger touched my life only once. But what a touch. It was a few days before the 1967 Six-Day War. After almost three weeks of mounting tension, the war fever was nearing breaking point. I knew that the ...
Nothing new under the sun
URI AVNERY During the last hundred years, Russia has undergone huge changes. At the beginning, it was ruled by the Czar, in an absolute monarchy with some democratic decorations, a “tyranny mitigated by inefficiency”.  After the downfall of the Czar, a ...
Ariel Sharon: The imperator
URI AVNERY   In the middle of the 70s, Ariel Sharon asked me to arrange something for him - a meeting with Yasser Arafat. A few days before, the Israeli media had discovered that I was in regular contact with the leadership ...
The unique situation of Palestinians in Israel
URI AVNERY Perhaps I am too stupid, but for the heck of me I cannot understand the sense of the Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. On the face of it, it seems like a clever ...
Neutral – in whose favor?
  URI AVNERY A former Israeli army Chief of Staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?” Lenin, in his Swiss exile, once inquired about ...
Mandela: The movie
Uri Avnery I have just seen the new movie “Mandela”, and I am so full of impressions that I cannot abstain from writing them down. It is a very good film, with very good actors. But that’s not the main point. ...
Israel’s self-boycott
Uri Avnery Can a country boycott itself? That may sound like a silly question. It is not. At the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, the “Giant of History” as Barack Obama called him, Israel was not represented by any of ...
Israel’s Jordan Valley land grab
Uri Avnery So here comes John Kerry again, for the umpteenth time (but who is counting?) to make peace between us Israelis and the Palestinians. It is a highly laudable effort. Unfortunately, it is based on a false premise. To ...
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