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Translation of an unabridged version of a article published in Ma’ariv, January 3, 2000. In the beginning of the 20 th century, a few idealists advocated the creation of a “UnitedStates of Europe”. They were ridiculed. But after two terrible World Wars and tens of milliondead, the European Union was created, a confederacy that practically … Read more

What is the connection between Ehud Barak and Menahem Begin? Translation of the unabridged version of an article by Uri Avnery for Ma’ariv, 14 December 1999. What is the connection between Ehud Barak and Menahem Begin? Begin had a clear strategic concept. He wanted to acquire the whole of Eretz-Israel.Therefore he saw — rightly, from … Read more

Translation of the unabridged version of an article to be published in Ma’ariv December 13, 1999. One has only to look at the manifesto signed by 20 Palestinian politicians and academiciansagainst the “tyranny and corruption” of Yassir Arafat, in order understand what happened tothe Palestinian people during the last hundred years, At the beginning of … Read more

Translation of the unabridged version of an article published in Ma’ariv, October 31 Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on Saturday night, the 4 th of November. The changing of thisdate with some day of the month of Heshwan, according to the “Jewish” calendar, is afalsification. Rabin was an atheist. He had nothing to do with the … Read more

Translation of the unabridged version of an article published in Ma’ariv, October 25, 1999 The news in the papers say that, as an opening position in the coming permanent statusnegotiations, Barak is going to offer the Palestinians a state of their own in 18% of the”territories”. I wish I could add: I don’t believe it. … Read more

Translation of unabridged version of article published in Ma’ariv, October 18, 1999 It all reminds one of the athlete in ancient Greece, who recounted that in far-away Rhodes hehad jumped to a height unparalleled even by the greatest Olympic champions. Many peoplewitnessed the event, he asserted, and if one of them would pass by chance … Read more

Translation of the unabridged version of an article published in Ma’ariv, October 4, 1999 Something peculiar happened to the two words “safe passage”. When this term was coined in the Oslo agreements, the intention was that the passage will be”safe” for the Palestinians. Now it seems that Barak and his people mean that it will … Read more

Translation of the unabridged version of the article published in Ma’ariv Speaking with Yasser Ararafat last week, Ehud Barak said, according to a French report, thatif he had been a young Palestinian, he would have joined a terrorist organization. He has saidthe same last year in an Israeli interview that later played a major role … Read more

Unabridged version of article published in Ma’ariv 19 Sept 99′, Ma’ariv Tomorrow, on Yom Kippur, we will remember the shocking picture that changed the self-image ofmany Israelis 22 years ago: Dozens of Israeli soldiers crouching on the ground, frightenedand humiliated, surrounded by their boastful Syrian captors. That was the torpedo that sank the Ship of … Read more