What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel]. — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
You have to fight for the soul of your people, you have to fight for the souls of millions of people on both sides, to overcome the legacy of this struggle [between Palestine and Israel] and create a readiness for… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic… — Uri Avnery Copy Share
It is our responsibility as the stronger party [Israel], as the occupying power, to convince the Palestinians that they can achieve their basic national aims, their just national aspirations, without violence. Unfortunately, the behavior of the Sharon administration, and before this of the Barak administration, has shown the Palestinians the opposite: namely, that they will achieve nothing without violence. — Uri Avnery Copy Share
Sharon's so-called two-state solution will be, let's say, twelve Palestinian enclaves, which will be called a Palestinian state. It will be connected by, perhaps,… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
There is the Jewish Agency, which gets a lot of money from the United States, from American Jews, whose sole job it is to create settlements. It enlists people all over the world - especially in Russia, and in the United States, by the way - to come and settle in the Occupied Territories as a kind of religious statement,… — Uri Avnery Copy Share
In 1949, the country of Palestine was partitioned after the war in such a way that the State of Israel-proper consisted of 78 percent… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
You must get Israelis to understand the feelings and the hopes and the traumas of the Palestinians. You have to get the Palestinians to… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel]. — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of… — Uri Avnery Copy Share
How do we solve the problem by allowing a number of refugees to return to Israel, allowing a number of refugees to return to the Palestinian state, and allowing a number of refugees to settle, with general compensation, where they want to settle? It is not an abstract problem. It involves four million human beings, and more than fifty years… — Uri Avnery Copy Share
I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
There are lots of grounds for hope in Israeli society. We are seeing Israelis getting fed up with war, looking for solutions. The youngest soldiers are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. Some are volunteering for army combat units but are refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories. We have the elite of the Israeli army, the air force… — Uri Avnery Copy Share
Violence [in Palestina] is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers. Therefore,… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
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