Unabridged translation of an article by Uri Avnery, published in Ma’ariv, February 7, 2000 The anti-Semitic article which appeared last week in the official Syrian newspaper,Tishrin, reminded me of a conversation I had 25 years ago with my friend, Issam Sartawi, the PLOleader who became the pioneer of Israeli-Palestinian peace. During one of our first … Read more
Translation of the unabridged version of an article by Uri Avnery, published in Ma’ariv, January 31, 2000. “Cui Bono? Who profits from it?” – that’s the classic Latin question an experienced detectiveasks himself when faced with a mystery. It is strange that with all the media tumult accompanying the Weizman affair, this questionwas not posed. … Read more
Translation of the unabridged version of an article by Uri Avnery, Ma’ariv, January 24, 2000. To the Chairman of the Knesset, Mr. Avraham Burg. Dear Sir, Thank you for inviting me – as all other former members of the Knesset – to take part in today’sceremony of planting trees on Tu B’Shvat (*). I am … Read more
Translation of the unabridged version of an article by Uri Avnery, published in Ma’ariv, January 10, 2000. Not for a long time have I seen a political statement so mendacious, hypocritical, cynical,devoid of moral integrity and lacking intellectual honesty as the one published under theheadline “Real Peace on the Golan” by an assorted group of … Read more
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