1. All Quiet on the Gaza Front
(Newsletter)

...he Gaza Front Special Features By Uri Avnery    Sunday, 22 June 2008 AND SUDDENLY: quiet. No Qassams. No mortar shells. The tanks are not rolling. The aircraft are not bombing.   In...

2. Economic and Environmental Crime
(Newsletter)

...orts to turn it into an official cease-fire. The flame was already burning visibly lower. The launching of Qassams and Grads from the Gaza Strip into Israel had fallen from dozens a day to two or thre...

3. Help! A Cease Fire!
(Newsletter)

... Help! A Cease Fire! Special Features By Uri Avnery    Saturday, 22 December 2007 FORGET the Qassams. Forget the mortar shells. They are nothing compared with what Hamas launched at us t...

4. The Rape of Washington
(Opinions/Features)

...rence in his remote home-town, Kiryat Malakhi (the former Arab village of Qastina, now within reach of the Qassams). It was an unprecedented performance. The ex-President spoke solo for nearly three h...

5. Uri Avnery on Israeli War Crimes
(Opinions/Features)

...position of the blockade on a million and a half Gaza Strip inhabitants contribute to the launching of the Qassams? In brief: were the alternatives considered before it was decided to start a deadly w...

6. Avnery on Obama’s inauguration speech
(Opinions/Features)

...hud Olmert, reciting his text after him. They seemed to approve the atrocities of the war, speaking of the Qassams and forgetting about the occupation, the blockade and the settlements. Probably they ...

7. Avnery: The Boss Has Gone Mad
(Opinions/Features)

...ng of the Gaza-Egypt border (the co-called “Philadelphi route”. Dubious achievements: the launching of the Qassams could have been prevented without a murderous war, if our government had been ready t...

8. Avnery on why Israel can not win the war
(Opinions/Features)

... against the Qassam rockets”) has been accepted as the whole truth. The view from the other side, that the Qassams are a retaliation for the siege that starves the one and a half million inhabitants o...

9. Uri Avnery on: The Israel Election War
(Opinions/Features)

...body blamed Hamas. WHAT WAS THE AIM? Tzipi Livni announced it openly: to liquidate Hamas rule in Gaza. The Qassams served only as a pretext. Liquidate Hamas rule? That sounds like a chapter out of “Th...

10. Living on Borrowed Time in a Stolen Land
(Opinions/Society)

...ained from escalating the conflict to the whole of southern Israel. It occurred to me that the barrages of Qassams that have been landing sporadically on Sderot and Ashkelon were actually nothing but ...