Uri Avnery: A Task in search of a Hero
SOME 60 YEARS ago the new Egyptian ruler, Gamal Abd-al-Nasser, wrote a book about the “Philosophy of the Revolution”. Imitating the playwright Luigi Pirandello (“Six Characters in Search More...
Uri Avnery: The Messiah Hasn’t Come and Bibi hasn’t gone
THE MESSIAH HASN’T COME and Bibi hasn’t gone. That’s the sad outcome. Sad, but not the end of the world. As the American saying goes: “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” I More...
Livni Gives Up PM Rotation Deal with Herzog to Insure Netanyahu’s Ousting
A little over 12 hours before the vote is due to start in Israel, MK Tzipi Livni, co-leader of the Zionist camp, has announced that she will waive the rotation deal with Yitzhak Herzog if it proves to More...
Uri Avnery: An Expensive Speech
WINSTON CHURCHILL famously said that democracy is the worst political system, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Anyone involved with political life knows that More...
Analysis: Israeli Center Parties to Play Key Role in Upcoming Elections
By Yotam Rozenwald The Israeli 2015 election scheduled for March 17 appears to be a close race, with the Likud and the Zionist Camp locked around 23-26 seats each. Under these circumstances, the center parties More...
Uri Avnery: Over Bottled
EVERYBODY KNOWS what the Israeli elections are about. The choice is stark: on the one side, the dream of a Greater Israel “from the sea to the river”, which would in practice be an apartheid state; More...
Recycling Controversy May Bottle Up Netanyahu Ahead of Election
Illustration From the Israeli Facebook/ A growing controversy over alleged misappropriation of funds by the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the latest in a series of revelations regarding More...
Uri Avnery: Zionists All
MANY TIMES people ask me: “Are you a Zionist?” My stock answer is: “Depends on what you mean by Zionism.” This is quite sincere. The term Zionism can mean many different things. Like the More...
Arab Labor Members Threaten to Walk if Party Keeps the Name ‘Zionist Camp’
MKs Yitzchak Herzog and Tzipi Livni can’t catch a break. The two center-left politicians, who co-lead the Labor list this elecetion season, figured it would be a clever move to change the name of the More...