by Uri Avnery*
At the mass meeting with Arun Gandhi, the grandson of the Mahatma, in Abu-Dis, I observed the faces of the participants. While Gandhi was preaching non-violence, I imagined a debate between two young Palestinians in the audience.
Yussuf: “He is right. The armed intifada has failed.
Hassan: “On the contrary. Without the actions of the martyrs, the world would have forgotten us long ago.”
Yussuf: “For half a year there were no suicide attacks in Israel, and look what (...)
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Uri Avnery: How Are You, Non-Violence?
6 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
28 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
This Strips Away the Last Vestiges of Moral Authority
By ROBIN COOK
Those close to him mutter, under their breath of course, that Tony Blair’s only moment of doubt over Iraq came in the wake of the exposure of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
This is plausible, as our Prime Minister possesses a Gladstonian moral imperative. He believes that any economy with the truth over the threat from Saddam’s vanishing weapons of mass disappearance would be forgiven in the short run by his electorate and (...) -
Israel Must Rethink Prisoner Policy
27 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Uri Avnery
"For all I care, they can starve to death!" announced Tzahi Hanegbi, after Palestinian prisoners declared an open-ended hunger strike against prison conditions. Thus the Minister for Internal Security added another memorable phrase to the lexicon of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Hanegbi became famous (or infamous) for the first time when, as a student activist, he was caught on camera with his friends hunting Arab students with bicycle chains. At the time I published (...) -
Journalist From Italy Killed in Iraq by Captors
27 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By JOHN F. BURNS
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Arab news channel Al Jazeera reported early Friday that it had received a videotape from a group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq showing the killing of an Italian journalist, Enzo Baldoni, who disappeared last week while traveling to Najaf. Italy’s Ansa news agency quoted Italian officials in Iraq as confirming the Al Jazeera report.
A spokesman for Al Jazeera, Jihad Ballout, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying that the satellite (...) -
On recent US-led attacks against Iraqi towns and particularly Najaf
25 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
We as members of the International Coordinating Group of the World Tribunal on Iraq wish to record the following statement:
An appalling silence prevails about the devastation being inflicted on the people of Iraq. Having staged a show of transferring power to Iraqi authorities, the US has intensified military operations to stifle anything that dares to challenge occupation.
The World Tribunal on Iraq refuses to be part of this silence... Based on our work to investigate and bring out (...) -
Is the real aim of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to divert attention from Iraq?
21 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
Fighting a Phony War
By Eleanor Clift
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth stopped by NEWSWEEK’s Washington bureau this week to explain their version of what happened in Vietnam 35 years ago and why John Kerry doesn’t deserve three Purple Hearts. None were on the Swift Boat Kerry commanded, but they had charts to illustrate their contention that Kerry’s boat did not come under fire and that two of his wounds were self-inflicted, one when he hurled a grenade at a rice bin too close to his (...) -
It wasn’t last year’s bomb but American policy which destroyed the UN’s hopes in Iraq
20 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Salim Lone
Even before that awful bomb ripped through our Baghdad headquarters on August 19 2003, taking the lives of 22 of my colleagues, the UN mission in Iraq had already become marginal to the epic crisis being played out there. Iraq had become the centre of both the US war on terror and the war between the extremities of two civilisations. The vicious terrorist attack a year ago today surprised no one working for Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN secretary general’s special (...) -
Detentions ’not right’ - Rimington
19 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Tania Branigan
A former head of MI5 has condemned the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, where British security service officials are said to have repeatedly interrogated suspects under harsh conditions.
Dame Stella Rimington’s comments came just two weeks after Britons formerly held at the camp described how MI5 officers questioned them at length.
Their lawyers accuse the UK of "complicity" in the detention and mistreatment of prisoners by the US at its Cuban base.
"It (...) -
The US elections as open season for Israel
17 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Uri Avnery
Once upon a time, an assistant to Levy Eshkol, our [Israeli] late prime minister, rushed up to him and cried: "Levy, a disaster! A drought has set in!"
"Where?" the prime minister asked anxiously, "in Texas?"
"No, here in Israel!" the man replied.
"Then there’s nothing to worry about," Eshkol said dismissively.
Right from the beginning, the State of Israel has been critically affected by events in the United States. "If America sneezes, Israel catches cold," is the (...) -
The State of Bush vs the State of Law
14 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Where did the Bush regime go wrong?
Somewhere along the line, once, George W. Bush and his clique of elitist super-rich entrepreneurs who dictate White House policy, must have had political objectives, must have believed that they could do good for America and for the world. What has ensued is a systematic abuse of power, a systematic disregard for international law and a systematic outrage of human rights. Where did the Bush regime get it wrong?
The (...)