First of all, I want to apologize to all the good women who are engaged in the world’s oldest profession. I recently described Shimon Peres as a political prostitute. One of my female readers has protested vigorously. Prostitutes, she pointed out, earn their money honestly. They deliver what they promise. Our president, on the other … Read more
Shimon Peres,Netanyahu’s agent,Compared IranWith Nazi Germany.Such cheap demagogueryBelittles the Holocaust,Insults the memory of the victimsAnd harms our interests.Israel is interestedIn peace with the PalestiniansAnd the entire Arab world –Not in war with Iran.Peace will deprive IranOf any cause for threatening us. Ad published in Haaretz, May 8, 2009
For Uri Avnery (1) As I write this paper, I have before my eyes a Jewish National Fund magazine published in Geneva on whose cover David Ben-Gurion is planting a tree. JNF has for decades carried out a campaign of forestation in Israel that is very popular in the Diaspora, and BG was giving it … Read more
EVERYBODY IS talking about the first 100 days of Barack Obama. And there’s a lot to talk about. Like a young bull he stormed into the arena. A deluge of new ideas in every direction, a tsunami of practical initiatives, some of which have already begun to be implemented. Clearly he had been thinking about … Read more
The Police haveArrested and interrogatedMembers of the“New Profile” movementWho are assistingConscientious objectors.Not for nothingDid Lieberman demandControl of thePolice and justice ministries.This is the beginningOf an attackOn the activists forDemocracy and peace.This is how dark regimesHave started. Ad in Haaretz, May 1, 2009 Cheques to help us continue the ads to: Gush Shalom, P.O.Box 3322, Tel-Aviv … Read more
Uri Avnery: Police offensive against New Profile activists – a violation of the Freedom of Speech.This assault on the adherents of peace and democracy follows after Lieberman took over the police and state prosecution. “The police assault on activists of ‘New Profile’ and ‘The Center for the Defence of the Individual’, the detention of activists, … Read more
I AM not saying that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an agent of the Mossad. Absolutely not. I don’t want to be sued for libel. I am only saying that were he an agent of the Mossad, he would not behave any differently. And also: If he did not exist, the Mossad would have had to invent … Read more
The President of Iran,Who has built a careerOn incitement and appealTo the basest instincts,Made a speech at theConference against racism.And who cried“Scandalous! Anti-Semitism!”?Our Foreign Minister,Who himself had built a careerOn Incitement and appealTo the basest instincts. Ad in Haaretz, April 24, 2009 Cheques to help us continue the ads to: Gush Shalom, P.O.Box 3322, Tel-Aviv … Read more
A conference against racism attended by Iranian President Ahmedinajad is a farce – but the campaign against this conference, conducted by Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman, is grotesque. Ahmedinajad and Lieberman are twins, perfectly fit for each other’s company, both of whom built a political career upon the dissemination of hatred, the constant issuing of inflammatory … Read more
PERHAPS Avigdor Lieberman is only a passing episode in the annals of the State of Israel. Perhaps the fire he is trying to ignite will flicker briefly and go out by itself. Or perhaps the police investigations into the grave corruption affair of which he is suspected will lead to his removal from the public … Read more