Woe to the Victor
- Uri Avnery אורי אבנרי
“VAE VICTIS!” was the Roman cry. Woe to the vanquished.
I would alter it slightly: “Vae Victori”, Woe to the victor!
The outstanding example is the astounding victory Israel won in June, 1967. After weeks of approaching doom, ...
Israel’s Left Turn to the Far Right
- Jonathan Cook جونثان كوك
Nazareth – Much of Israeli politics is myth-making – the creation of narratives based on illusions – and the country’s election last week was no exception. Commentators have been quick to characterize the result as a dramatic ...
Israeli elections 2013: The protest movement succeeded perhaps, but the people lost out
- Yacov Ben Efrat יעקב בן-אפרת يعقوب بن افرات
The pundits and the politicians agree that the protest movement succeeded, resulting in big electoral wins for Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid (“There is a future”) and Naftali Bennett of the rightwing ha-Ba’it ha-Yehudi (“The Jewish ...
Israel: A Move to the Center
- Uri Avnery אורי אבנרי
IT WAS the night of the optimists.
Tuesday at 10.01 pm, a minute after the ballot boxes were sealed, the three TV news programs announced the results of their exit polls.
The dire predictions of the pessimists were scattered to the winds. Israel ...
Weird Elections
- Uri Avnery אורי אבנרי
IN A few hundred years, a professor looking for an especially esoteric subject will ask his students to research the Israeli elections of 2013.
The students will come back with a unanimous report: the results of our research are incredible.
Faced with ...
A Person Called Nobody
- Uri Avnery אורי אבנרי
SUDDENLY, I realized that a new star had appeared on the political firmament of Israel. Until yesterday I did not even know of its existence.
A respected public opinion poll posed a Nixonesque question: From which politician would you buy a used car? ...
Cold Revenge
- Uri Avnery אורי אבנרי
“REVENGE IS a dish that is best eaten cold,” is a saying attributed to Stalin. I don’t know if he really said that. All the possible witnesses were executed long ago.
Anyhow, a taste for delayed revenge is not an Israeli trait. Israelis ...
The Greek left must answer: What does refusal of payment mean
- Haris Savvidis Χάρης Σαββίδης
KKE*, ANTARSYA**, a big part of SYRIZA*** (e.g. the left wing of SYN****), as well as a series of left-leaning groups not represented in parliament, that do not belong to any of the above mentioned parties, in other words, the majority of the left, supports ...
The exit from the crisis is on the left:Main points of SYRIZA proposals for the Greek elections of 17 June
- SYRIZA ΣΥΡΙΖΑ
Here are the main points of Syriza's electoral programme
Upheaval in Greece
Change in Europe
1. Creation of a shield to protect society against the crisis
• Not a single citizen without a guaranteed minimum income or unemployment ...
I will keep Greece in the eurozone
- Alexis Tsipras Αλέξης Τσίπρας
Lest there be any doubt, my movement – Syriza – is committed to keeping Greece in the eurozone.
Alexis Tsipras, by oursoula
President ...
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