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Uri Avnery
JOURNALIST, WRITER, PEACE ACTIVIST.
1950-1990
Former Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, "Ha'olam Haze" newsmagazine.
1965-1969
1969-1973
1979-1981
3 Terms as member of the Knesset (Israeli Parliament).
1975
Founding member, Israeli council for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
1993 Founding member, "Gush Shalom" (Peace Bloc), Independent Peace
Mevement.
Columnist, Ma'ariv Daily.
Born:
September 10, 1923, Beckum, Germany.
Immigration to palestine:
November 1933.
Underground:
Member of the Irgun, 1938-1942.
Army service:
Member of Samson's Foxes, commando unit, 1948
twice wounded in action.
Prizes:
Erich-Maria-Remarque peace prize (Germany) for the year 1995,
awarded 21/6/95.
Honorary citizenship of Abu-Ghosh near Jerusalem, for his part in
preventing
the eviction of the village, awarded 12.12.53
Honorary citizenship of Kfar Kassem, Israel,
awarded 31.11.96, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the war
crime, for his principal role in exposing it.
Aachen peace prize for "Gush Shalom with Uri Avnery",
awarded 1/9/97.
Kreisky prize for human rights, Vienna, autumn 1997.
Lower Saxony prize for human rights, awarded 11.2.98
Palestinian award for human rights, awarded by "LAW", Palestinian
Society for Human Rights
Jerusalem 7.6.98
(Avnery has never received any prize from any official Israeli body.)
Since 1948 has advocated the setting up of a Palestinianstate
alongside Israel.
In 1974, Uri Avnery was the first Israeli to establish contact with
PLO leadership.
In 1982 he was the first Israeli ever to meet Yassir Arafat, after
crossing the lines in besieged Beirut.
Books:
"Terrorism � The infantile disease of the Hebrew revolution"
(Booklet, 1945, HEBREW).
War or peace in the Semitic region (booklet, 1947, hebrew).
"In the fields of the Philistines"
(1949, Hebrew, translated into Spanish and Yiddish), best-selling
combat diary (twelve editions).
"The other side of the coin"
(1950,Hebrew), war experiences.(was boycotted because of description
of atrocities).
"The Swastika"
(1961, Hebrew), analysis of growth of the Nazi movement in Germany.
"Israel without Zionists"
("the war of the seventh day") (1968, English - Macmillan us and
Britain - translated into Hebrew, French, German, Italian, Danish,
Dutch, Spanish), history of the Israeli-Arab conflict, a plea for a
Middle Eastern community.
"1 against 119"
(1969, Hebrew), speeches by Uri Avnery in the Knesset, edited by
Amnon Zichroni.
"My friend, the enemy"
(1988, English, translated into Hebrew, French, German, Italian), a
personal testimony about contacts with the PLO since 1974. German
edition with preface by Bruno Kreisky.
"Lenin doesn't live here anymore"
(1991, Hebrew), about the transformation in the former Sowiet Union
and Eastern Europe.
"We wear the shirt of Nessos"
(1991, German), Israel after the Gulf war.
"Two peoples, Two states"
(1995, German), conversation with Uri Avnery,
preface by Rudolf Augstein.
"The Jerusalem question"
(1996, German), conversations of Uri Avnery and Azmi Bishara with
Israeli and Palestinian personalities.
Uri Avnery - a detailed biographical note.
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19.01.02
The Ongoing Blood Feud
Sari Nusseibeh, the new Palestinian commissioner for Jerusalem, tells
an interesting story:
Once, driving under pressure because he was late for a lecture at Bir
Zeit University, he inadvertently hit a woman crossing the road to
catch a bus. He stopped, of course, helped the woman up and offered
to take her to hospital. But she told him that she was quite alright
and in a hurry to catch the bus. So he gave her his name and phone
number, as well as the name of his insurance company, and forgot all
about it.
Weeks later his father, the former Jordanian minister Anwar
Nusseibeh, returned from abroad. He called his son and said: "You
have done a very bad thing."
When Sari understood that his father was alluding to the almost- forgotten incident,
he told him that it was not his fault and that the woman was not hurt, also that he
had given her his phone number and the address of th
e insurance company. But the father said: "You have not done the main thing:
apologized. In fact, you impugned the honor of their family and ours."
The father took his son, collected a few dozens notables and led a large convoy of
cars to the village where the woman was living. Her family received them politely and
graciously accepted their apologies. The honor of th
e aggrieved family was restored and everybody was satisfied.
Nusseibeh applies the lessons of this episode to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
"Let�s assume that everything happened unintentionally," he said, "The Jews were
fleeing from Europe and did not intend to hurt the Arabs
. All they thought about was to set up a state of their own after all they had
suffered. But the Arabs were hurt. Hundred thousands of Palestinians lost their all
and became refugees. You must first of all honor them by a
sking for their forgiveness."
I remember similar things being said by the great British historian, the late Arnold
Toynbee, some 40 years ago. He sent me the copy of a speech which, he believed, the
President of Israel should address to the Palestinia
ns. In it he was to ask for their pardon for the harm done to them, emphasizing that
the Jews did not mean to cause it.
What we have here is a difference of cultures. Sari himself was educated in England
(where his father served as Jordanian ambassador) and behaved as Europeans and
Israelis would: exchange personal data and leave the rest
to the insurance companies. It saves time and trouble, so one can rush on, as demanded
by a technological society.
Arab culture is different. In it, honor plays a role, as part of an ancient and wise
tradition, designed to prevent blood feuds and bloodshed that can go on for
generations.
Nusseibeh has another instructive story. He was asked to join a delegation of notables
after an accidental killing. The delegation, numbering some 70 persons, went to the
home of the bereaved family, requested forgiveness
and asked how much money the family demanded as consolation. The father of the man
killed asked for 10 million dinars, a huge sum that the other family was, of course,
quite unable to raise. But it was all a part of the
ceremony.
"I relinquish 5 millions in the honor of President Yasser Arafat," the father
continued, "I relinquish 1 million in honor of..." and so on, until it came down to a
reasonable sum. Agreement was reached and bloodshed avoid
ed.
The whole procedure is called Suluh Asha�iri, or tribal conciliation. The "Hudneh",
which President Katzav proposed to offer in Ramallah (an initiative aborted by Sharon
and Peres), is a part of this process. But this run
s counter to the mentality of Israelis, especially Ashkenazis, which goes: "Never
apologize, always deny everything, otherwise you will be asked to pay."
Clearly the Zionist enterprise, which sought to save the Jews and create a Jewish
homeland, has caused grievous harm to the Palestinian people. The historian Isaac
Deutscher tried to describe the course of events by givin
g an example: "A man lived in the upper floor of a building which caught fire. To save
his life, he jumped out of the window and landed on a passer-by below, wounding him
badly. Since then, there has been a bloody quarrel
between them."
Even if this is not a perfect analogy (as no analogy can be), it is clear that the
jumper must recognize the suffering he has caused and apologize to the man hurt. The
Palestinian refugees, whose honor was trampled and wh
o lost all, need this very much. An apology is a prerequisite to any
practical solution. As the Bible tells us (Proverbs 28, 13): "Whoso
confesseth and forsaketh (his sins) shall have mercy."
But this is the most difficult thing for Israelis to do. They are
afraid to admit that they even inadvertently caused harm. They want
to forget the whole thing and leave it to their insurance company
(the United States) to pay compensations.
The insult felt by the Palestinians because of our ignoring the
disaster we brought on them is one of the basic reasons of the blood
feud, that goes on from generation to generation. It is still killing
every day.
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