Ben-Gurion said about her: "The only thing Golda knows how to do is to hate!"Golda Meir did not hate me. That would be an understatement. She detested me.The way I speak, the way I dress, the way I look. Everything.Once, in the middle of a speech in the...
Israel’s Labor Party: A New Start?
One day the Israeli Labor Party felt that it needed a new leader.That happens to this party every couple of years. The party is in bad shape. It looks more like a political corpse than a living organism. Wanted: a new leader, charismatic, energetic, enthusiastic.So...
A Confession: Uri Avnery Turns 93
Today is the last day of the 93rd year of my life. Ridiculous.Am I moderately satisfied with my life until now? Yes. I am.If by a miracle I could be returned to, say, 14, and travel all this long way again, would I like that? No, I would not.Enough is enough.In these...
Where Is Israel’s Anti-Establishment Leader?
When I was young, there was a joke: "There is no one like you – and that's a good thing!"The joke applies now to Donald Trump. He is unique. That's good, indeed.But is he unique? As a worldwide phenomenon, or at least in the Western world, is he...
Uri Avnery on The Widening Gap
In any list of Israel's 100 most important women, Ilana Dayan would occupy a prominent position.Dayan (no relation to the late general with the eye patch) is the host of one of the most prestigious television programs. While Israeli TV in general is slowly sinking...
Uri Avnery on The Iran Treaty
And what if the whole drama was only an exercise of deception?What if the wily Persians did not even dream of building an atomic bomb, but used the threat to further their real aims?What if Binyamin Netanyahu was duped to become unwittingly the main collaborator of...
