URI AVNERY, A HERO FOR PEACE Put quite simply, Uri Avnery is my hero. This former israeli paramilitary terrorist turned peace activist bravely stands up to religious extremism and zionist fanaticism. I read his book "Israel Sin Sionistas" twenty years ago and made me deeply inspired and hopeful. The...

Carlos Latuff 169 YEARS before the Gaza War, Heinrich Heine wrote a premonitory poem of 12 lines, under the title "To Edom". The German-Jewish poet was talking about Germany, or perhaps all the nations of Christian Europe. This is what he wrote (in my rough translation): "For a thousa...

By Uri Avnery 3.1.2009 JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, Aljazeera's Arabic channel was reporting on events in Gaza. Suddenly the camera was pointing upwards towards the dark sky. The screen was pitch black. Nothing could be seen, but there was a sound to be heard: the noise of airplanes, a frightening, a t...