
Uri Avnery (supplied by the subject)Public domainFile pageUri Avnery
- journalist
- politician
- writer
- newspaper editor
- peace activist
- human rights defender
- opinion journalist
- Born 1923-09-10
- Died 2018-08-20 (aged 94)
- Nationality Germany, Israel
Known for
- 2009
| Role | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Defamation | Movie | 86 |
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America controls the world, we control America. Never before have Jews exerted such an immense influence on the center of world power.
Read the full quoteThe only people who have an official confirmation that they are sane are those who have been released from psychiatric hospitals.
Read the full quoteBy that time it was already clear that the next prime minister was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested – a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in…
Read the full quoteSartawi and I are sitting in a small restaurant on the Boulevard St. Germain. After the main course, he excuses himself. 'I have to go to the bathroom. Keep an eye on my briefcase.' His attaché case – the kind Israelis…
Read the full quote[Henry] Kissinger has always been a paradox for me. I was profoundly impressed by his book about European politics in the first half of the last century. One of his main theses was that peace agreements are valueless if…
Read the full quoteI have often wondered how different Zionism might have been if Herzl had not been a Viennese journalist but a shopkeeper in a Damascus bazaar. Would Zionism have realized that Palestine was a part of a big area inhabited…
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- Nationalities
- Germany, Israel
- Cause of death
- cerebrovascular disease
- Languages
- Hebrew, German
