“Even before a single vessel could sail out towards the port of Gaza, the flotilla had already driven the Netanyahu government into confusion, disorientation and virtual panic,” said former Knesset Member Uri Avnery of Gush Shalom. “The one who does not learn from history is condemned to repeat it. In this case, the Government of … Read more
Uri Avnery on the Naksa Day events at the Syrian border: Following the events on the Syrian border, Gush Shalom activist and former Knesset member Uri Avnery said: “Today the army inflicted disproportionate violence on unarmed Palestinian demonstrators in the Golan Heights, more than what is required to protect the border, leading to unnecessary bloodshed. … Read more
The provocative settler parade planned in Sheikh Jarrah reflects the nature of this false holiday and false unification of Jerusalem It is only suitable and appropriate to the nature of the false espicable holiday called “Jersalem Day” that this year the settlers’ “March of the Flags” was transferred from Jaffa Street in West Jerusalem to … Read more
It’s time to bring back the Navy ships from off the Gaza coast, stop the harassing of Palestinian fishermen and allow the next flotilla to proceed.A Palestinian state will naturally seek to establish a port in Gaza, just as Israel did in Haifa and Ashdod. “It is time to recognize reality: the siege of Gaza, … Read more
The speech of PM Netanyahu in the US Congress was composed of dozens of colorful gimmicks and empty cliches, talk of a peace which he does not intend to conclude and of a fictional Palestinian state which he has no intention of seeing become reality. Netanyahu praised democracy to the skies, while intending to continue … Read more
“In the Prime Minister’s smug and self-satisfied speech there was not a single word of apology for the serious blunder to which Mr. Netanyahu is personally responsible: his decision not to cooperate with the Goldstone Commission, which resulted in the report being published as it was published, causing severe political damage to the State of … Read more
“The deliberate targeting Israeli civilians in Jerusalem, the unintended but no less lethal shooting at Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, and the escalating exchange of missiles on both sides of the Strip’s border, might turn out to be milestone events, marking a plunge back into a boundless vortex of bloodshed” said former Knesset Member … Read more
This is a day of infamy in the history of our legislature, a big step in the process of making this a racist and sinister country . Exactly today our courts of law demonstrated the strength of democracy and showed that not even a former president is above the law, sentencing Moshe Hatzav to a … Read more
Today, February 16, the Supreme Court heard Gush Shalom’s petition against the settler radio “Galey Israel”. Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish and her fellow judges Edna Arbel and Hanan Meltzer reprimanded the state for “constitutionally improper” provisions in the West Bank military governor’s decree establishing the “Judea and Samaria Broadcasting Authority”. The military governor purports … Read more
“Gideon Saar ceased to be the minister of education, and turned into Israel’s minister of propaganda, with the purpose of instilling an extreme right-wing ideology into the Israeli education system,” said former Knesset member Uri Avnery in response to the minister’s plan to send pupils to ‘travel’ in Hebron at heavy cost for the Ministry … Read more