Ingezonden mededeling van het Sivmo. Tevens de vertaling van het stuk van Uri Avnery op dit weblog.
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Zoals u weet is de ontruiming van de nederzettingen in de Gazastrook aanstaande. De kolonisten verzetten zich hier met hand en tand tegen en in hun oranje oorlogskleuren beheersen zij het nieuws in Israel (en deels in Nederland) al dagenlang.
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Uri Avnery
23.7.05
For some weeks now, a red light has been flickering in my mind, illuminating a word in large Gothic letters: Weimar.
As a 9-year old I saw with my own eyes the collapse of the German republic that came into being after World War I. It was generally referred to as the Weimar Republic, because its constitution was written in the town of the two towering figures of German Kultur, Goethe and Schiller. Some months after its breakdown, we fled Germany and thus our lives were saved.
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De beelden waren op de tv en in de kranten: een Palestijnse jongen die gestenigd werd door kolonisten, een Israëlische soldaat die (tevergeefs) probeerde de jongen te beschermen. Uri Avnery’s visie op wat er op dit moment gebeurt.
Uri Avnery
2.7.02
Arik’s Horror Show
All the world saw the horror on TV: a Palestinian boy lying on the ground, unconscious. An Israeli soldier bending over him, not knowing what to do. A settler coming up from behind and throwing a stone at the head of the injured Palestinian. Another settler dropping a big stone on him at point-blank range. A bearded medic, also a settler, approaches the wounded boy, hesitates, and then goes away without treating him, pursued by the chants of a chorus of settler boys and girls: “Let him die! Let him die!” Lees verder
Uri Avnery
25.8.05
“The Day After”
This week, the country was shocked by a terrifying train accident. A heavy truck was crossing the tracks as a train approached at high speed. The locomotive driver saw the truck but could not stop in time. The truck driver saw the train but couldn’t get off the track in time. Result: many killed, many hurt, a scene of destruction.
Something similar to this accident is looming now, with the Gush Katif withdrawal drawing near. The settlers’ train is rapidly approaching the fateful junction. Only by a miracle can the settlers brake in time. Only by a miracle will the fatal crash be avoided.
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Ik zit hier een beetje met een slecht geweten, zegt veteraan Uri Avnery. Gisteren waren er demonstraties tegen de muur bij Jeruzalem, waarmee van vier dorpen hun halve land wordt afgenomen. Ik vind dat ik daar bij moet zijn, en er is maar één persoon die me daar van af kan houden en dat is Anneke.
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Voor mensen die zich betrokken voelen bij Palestina en Israël: zet 5 juni in je agenda. Twee belangrijke veteranen in één bijeenkomst.
(Dat ontruimingsplan van Sharon, om de nederzettingen in de Gazastrook te ontruimen, is dat nou goed of slecht? Oude vredesveteraan Uri Avnery weegt de voors en tegens af)
Uri Avnery
26.3.05
Paved with Bad Intentions
Last week, the mainstream peace organizations held a demonstration in support of Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan. I agonized for days about whether to take part or not. The question continues to bother me, and the discussions on this subject are still going on – with crucial votes due in the Knesset this week.
Perhaps the best way to find an answer is to set out the pros and cons.
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Uri Avnery
8.1.05
How The Hell Did This Happen?
How the hell did I get into this goddamned mess? I wake up in the morning and can’t believe it. What, I, Arik Sharon, am waging a war against the settlers? I, who put them there in the first place? I, who drafted the map of the settlements long before the settlers themselves ever dreamed of it? Lees verder
Uri Avnery
11.9.04
“God Wills It!”
Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment.
One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a “crime against humanity”. It does not mention that they were set up on the land reserves of a million Palestinians crowded in the tiny strip, and rob them of their scarce water. Their removal, it says, is an “expression of tyranny, evil and arbitrariness”. Officers and soldiers are called upon not to take part in this “ethnic cleansing”.
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