Gush Shalom's Leader

Aliens Probing for Fugitive Lives

Uri Avnery, who fought for Israel in its war of independence, is the leader of the Israeli peace group Gush Shalom. He writes on the latest predatory advances of Israel, supported by the USA and Arab heads of state. Since all Arab leaders will be discredited by their inaction, the future will belong to Islamic fundamentalism and, once more, we deliver our fates into the hands of those we least desire, similar to how we created the Taliban to fight the USSR only to find ourselves fighting it ourselves, and it now growing stronger all the time. More of our self-defeating imperialistic Irony. In The Progressive: http://www.progressive.org/mag/avnery010209.html Israel's Gigantic Blunder ..DAY AFTER DAY, night after night, Aljazeera’s Arabic channel broadcasts the atrocious pictures: heaps of mutilated bodies, tearful relatives looking for their dear ones among the dozens of corpses spread out on the ground, a woman pulling her young daughter from under the rubble, doctors without medicines trying to save the lives of the wounded... Millions are seeing these terrible images, picture after picture, day after day. These images are imprinted on their minds forever: horrible Israel, abominable Israel, inhuman Israel. A whole generation of haters. That is a terrible price, which we will be compelled to pay long after the other results of the war itself have been forgotten in Israel. But there is another thing that is being imprinted on the minds of these millions: the picture of the miserable, corrupt, passive Arab regimes. As seen by Arabs, one fact stands out above all others: the wall of shame..