What courage and steadfast fortitude it must take, week after week and year after year, for Uri Avnery to continually fight to bring justice to the Palestinian people and morality to the state of Israel. Who is Uri Avnery?
I only know about Uri Avnery. I know that he is an Israeli. I know that he fought in the war of 1948, was a past member of the Israel’s Kenesset, and worked as a journalist. Where I don’t know. Some people here have called him a marginal figure in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because his organization of only two thousand members, Gush Shalom, translated as "The Peace Bloc," seldom gets the press it deserves for its persistent activity on behalf of peace in Israel-Palestine. As an Israeli, he is fervently pro-Israel. But his vision of Israel deviates considerably from those who would support the policies of the Israeli government over the past thirty years to achieve a religious-historical dream of an Israel from the Jordan River to the sea by dispossessing another people of that land, the Palestinians, whose ancestors have lived there for centuries, at least since the birth of Islam, and perhaps longer.
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