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January 27, 2018

Uri Avnery: The Jumping Parliament

YEARS AGO, when I was a member of the Knesset, I decided to stage a demonstration in the plenum hall. I put on a T-shirt with the slogan “Peace is greater than Greater Eretz...

Israel / Palestine

January 6, 2018

Uri Avnery: Why I am Angry

January 6, 2018 I AM angry with the Mizrahi elite. Very angry indeed. Mizrah is the Hebrew word for East. Eastern Jews are those who lived for many centuries in the Islamic world. Western...

Israel / Palestine / Palestinian people

December 23, 2017

Uri Avnery: Cry, Beloved Country

December 23, 2017 ANYONE PROPOSING the death penalty is either a complete fool, an incorrigible cynic or mentally disturbed – or all of these. There is no effective therapy for any of these defects....

Arab Culture / Israel / Jewish Culture

December 8, 2017

Uri Avnery on Jerusalem & Trump

excepted from From Barak to Trump, this week’s installment of Avnery’s newsletter: Palestinians, and Arabs at large, do have deep feelings and convictions. They are a proud people. They still remember the times when Muslims...

Arab Culture / Israel / Literature / Mashreq / Middle East / Palestine / Palestinian people / Poetry / Translation

September 18, 2017

35 Years Later: Memory and Violence in Literary Sabras and Shatilas

via MLYNXQUALEY & the always excellent Arabi Literature (in English): on SEPTEMBER 18, 2017 • ( 0 ) It’s now been thirty-five years since the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps. It...

History / Israel / Middle East

September 1, 2017

Uri Avnery: Crusaders & Zionists

September 2, 2017 A FEW days ago I found myself in Caesarea, sitting in a restaurant and looking out over the sea. The sunbeams were dancing on the little waves, the mysterious ruins of...

Gaza Strip / Islamic Fundamentalists / Israel / Palestinian people

July 8, 2017

Uri Avnery: Eyeless in Gaza

July 8, 2017 I HAVE a unique confession to make: I like Gaza. Yes, I like this far-away corner of Palestine, the narrow strip on the way to Egypt, in which two million human...

Book Review / Israel / Palestine

May 12, 2017

Richard Falk on Israel’s New Cultural War of Aggression

Below, the opening paragraphs of RICHARD FALK‘s recent article in Counterpunch concerning his tribulations after publishing a book on Palestine. The article then broadens into looking at the various ways in which pro-Israeli right-wing...

Israel / Palestine

April 22, 2017

Uri Avnery: Palestine’s Nelson Mandela

April 22, 2017 I HAVE a confession to make: I like Marwan Barghouti. I have visited him at his modest Ramallah home several times. During our conversations, we discussed Israeli-Palestinian peace. Our ideas...

Climate Change / Human rights / Intellectuals / Israel / Journalism / Palestine

April 21, 2017

More on Bret Stephens, the NYT’s New Hire: from Climate Denial to Racism

New New York Times hire Bret Stephens (cc photo: Christopher Michel) Outraged by the NYT hiring a straight-ahead climate denier (which at this point in the game is exactly as inane as hiring a...