Suddenly I noticed that we were quite alone on the road. A wonderful road, six lanes wide, partsof it still in the building stage. Completely empty. This is a bypass-bypass road, an invention of the occupation. First, they built thecross-Samaria road, from Kafr-Kassem to Ariel and beyond, so as to by-pass the Palestinianvillages. But the … Read more
What an attractive person! What personal charm! What a magic smile! What a convincing way ofspeaking! Who would have guessed that behind these there is nothing? No principles. No moral commitment. No loyalty to an ideal. Nothing. He came from nowhere and he is returning to nowhere. And during eight long years in the mostimportant … Read more
The Labor Party has decided to show a film about Yitzhaq Rabin, but to cut out the picture ofRabin shaking the hand of Yasser Arafat at the signing ceremony of the Oslo agreement. Thus itburied his historic achievement. A film about Rabin without Oslo is like a film about Albert Einstein without the theory ofrelativity … Read more
When a hurricane strikes a forest, every tree is tested. The rotten ones are uprooted and sweptaway by the wind, sometimes far away. The strong ones, those with deep roots in the earth,remain standing. The Israeli peace forces are being tested now. The winds of war are blowing. Some peace campcelebrities (alias “Leftists”) were uprooted … Read more
If I were a cynic, I would have said that Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon planned it all in advance. Just a month ago, Barak was bankrupt; a politician at the end of his career. He had lost hismajority in the Knesset, his partners had left him, the days of his government were numberedand it … Read more
Military action speaks for itself. The results can be seen with the naked eye. In this war, some 70 Palestinians (including 11 who were Israeli citizens) were killed,several thousands were wounded, many of them severely. On the Israeli side, two soldiers werekilled and several dozens wounded, almost all of them lightly. What does that show? … Read more
It’s no use accusing Ariel Sharon of the bloodshed which followed his visit to the compound ofthe mosques on the Temple Mount. Since the Kibia massacre of 1953, through his bloody reign inGaza at the end of the 60s and the Beirut events of 1982, he has left behind rivers of bloodwherever he has gone. … Read more
You can’t understand Ehud Barak without knowing where he came from: the “General Staffcommando unit”. The commando unit is not an army unit like any other. It is a frame of mind, a disposition, a way oflooking at the world. During the 1948 war I served in Samson’s Foxes company which was, together with the … Read more
Uri Avnery “The face of the generation is like the face of a dog, and there is no truth,” says the Talmud.There are several interpretation of this saying. One goes like this: “The face of thegenerations” means its leaders. And why does it look like a dog? Because a dog runs ahead, as ifit were … Read more
Concerning the Duvdevan affair, all the questions have already been asked, except theimportant ones. (Duvdevan, Hebrew for cherry, is the code-name of an undercover Israeli army unit used inPalestinian surroundings, usually masquerading as Arabs. In a recent action, three of itssoldiers were accidentally killed by their own comrades in the Palestinian village Assiraal-Shmalieh while trying … Read more