Uri Avnery: May Your Home Be Destroyed
WHEN I first met Yasser Arafat in besieged Beirut, in the summer of 1982, Abu Mazen was not present. But when I met him again in Tunis, a few months later, he asked me to meet Abu Mazen, too. Abu Mazen, it transpired, More...
Lieberman: ‘In the next conflict—we will not stop until a white flag is raised’
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman at a conference held by the Institute for National Security Studies on Tuesday At a conference held by the Institute for National Security Studies on Tuesday, Defense More...
Uri Avnery: Confessions of a Megalomaniac
THE ARAB taxi driver who brought me to Ramallah had no trouble with the Israeli border posts. He just evaded them. Saves a lot of trouble. I was invited by Mahmood Abbas, the President of the Palestinian More...
Uri Avnery: Abu-Mazen’s Balance Sheet
MAHMOUD ABBAS was not present at my first meeting with Yasser Arafat during the siege of Beirut in the First Lebanon War. That was, it may be remembered, the first meeting ever between Arafat and an Israeli. Some More...
Were the Israelis And Palestinians Supppsed To Meet In Moscow?
There is no Israeli meeting with Palestinians in Moscow planned, the Russian news agency Interfax reported today. Rumors had been rife regarding such a meeting, leading to much confusion. “President More...
Abu Mazen rejects Egyptian Sinai offer – report
– “IDF Radio” says President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi offered land to make the Gaza Strip five times bigger. – – President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi presented Palestinian More...
Contradictory reports on Cairo truce talks
– A senior diplomatic Israeli source sees wide gaps but Hamas talks of compromise. – – A senior Israeli diplomatic source has said that the talks in Cairo to formulate arrangements for More...