The Tunic of Nessus
April 15, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughtsIn a few weeks, Israel will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. Millions of words, most of them hollow, will be poured out. As usual.
Uri Avnery
In a few weeks, Israel will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. Millions of words, most of them hollow, will be poured out. As usual.
Some days ago, a man committed an act of terrorism in the center of London, a city I love.
Binyamin Netanyahu wants to have them under his control. Completely. Totally. Radio. Television. The social media. The lot.
A few days ago I happened upon an excellent British movie, "Testament of Youth", based on the memoirs of Vera Brittain. The movie brought me back to the affair of Elor Azaria
All intelligent Israelis realize by now that we are facing a fateful choice: either two states, or an apartheid state, or a single Arab-majority state. Most Israelis want none of these.
If someone had told me 50 years ago that the rulers of Israel, Jordan and Egypt had met in secret to make peace, I would have thought that I was dreaming.
I believe that it is there that the solution lies. We must get rid of the occupation, by all available means, the quicker the better.
The past cannot be changed. But perhaps, perhaps, we can learn from it and draw some conclusions
When everybody on both sides was exhausted, the war ended with a set of armistices, which defined the recognized borders of Israel
The most incisive analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I have ever read was written by the Jewish-Polish-British historian Isaac Deutscher