Ben-Gurion said about her: “The only thing Golda knows how to do is to hate!” Golda Meir did not hate me. That would be an understatement. She detested me. The way I speak, the way I dress, the way I look. Everything. Once, in the middle of a speech in the Knesset (I believe it … Read more
The police investigatorsAre coming near!What to do?1) Fire the police chief.2) Elections.3) War with Iran.4) All of the Above. Published in Haaretz, 04/05/18
After two years and a half in which the poet Dareen Tatour was held in prison and under house arrest for the “crime” of writing a poem and publishing it on the Internet, the verdict in her trial is to be announced. The verdict announcement session will be held tomorrow, Thursday May 3rd,at 11:00, in … Read more
ON THE fifth day of the six-day war in 1967, I published an open letter to the Prime Minister, Levy Eshkol. The Israeli army had just conquered the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, and I proposed that Eshkol immediately offer the Palestinian people to establish the State of Palestine there, in return … Read more
Natalie Portman’sRefusal to shakeNetanyahu’s handVerges on anti-Semitism.So said Minister Steinitz.If that is so, thenThere are in IsraelQuite a lot ofAnti-Semites. Published in Haaretz, 27/04/18
TWO DAYS ago, the State of Israel celebrated its 70th birthday. For days we heard about nothing else. Innumerable speeches full of platitudes. A huge festival of kitsch. Everyone agreed: It was a historic moment, when David Ben-Gurion got up in a small hall in Tel Aviv and declared the foundation of the state. Everybody … Read more
Netanyahu mightSoon face judgesTo answerCriminal charges.Now he is strivingTo undermineThe Supreme Court.Coincidence? Published in Haaretz, 20/04/18
Judges say defense minister’s decision to deny entry permits to 90participants in coexistence event ‘unreasonable’ and insensitive The High Court on Tuesday ordered Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to grant entry permits to Israel to 90 Palestinians who are slated to attend an Israeli-Palestinian memorial service in Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening, saying his decision to … Read more
Even if Trump’s audiovisual show in the skies of Damascus somewhat overshadowed yesterday’s events on the Gaza border, it is important to emphasize what happened there (and what did not happen …). Yesterday it turned out that if the IDF really wants to, it could face for an entire day more than 10,000 unarmed demonstrators … Read more
WRITE DOWN: I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who give them the orders, up to the commander in chief. We don’t belong to the same army, or to the same state. We … Read more