Human Wrongs Watch
By Uri Avnery*
5 December 2015
IT WAS wonderful.
I went to the seashore for the first time since my operation three weeks ago. A five minute walk from my home.
Uri Avnery
The sea was placid, smooth. A mild sun was shining near the horizon, not too hot, not too cold, just as we like it. A cool wind, not too cold, was blowing.
I was sipping a cup of “americano” coffee, thinking that all was well with the best of all possible words.
BUT OF course it wasn’t. In fact, all was wrong with the worst of all possible worlds.
True, beyond the blue sea, in faraway Paris, the largest assembly ever of world leaders was deliberating on how to save the planet from climate disaster.
Our own Binyamin Netanyahu was there with a huge delegation, though most Israelis, including Netanyahu, have only contempt for the issue, which they consider a phony problem for pampered countries which have no real problems, as we have aplenty.
He went there only to shake hands and have his picture taken shaking the hands of all the world’s great leaders, including Arabs, giving the lie to all those who bemoan Israel’s growing isolation in the world.
But all this was sham. Israel, the country I love, is in grave danger. Actually, it is in more dangers than one.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 