Uri Avnery, June, 2006. Wikicommons/ Uri Avnery. Some rights reserved.
Some years ago I was asked to go and collect Uri Avnery from the airport. Although I had been reading his regular email reports from Israel, I wondered how I would recognise him. I needn’t have worried, the moment I saw a magnificent old man, complete with a head of impressive white hair and an equally impressive white beard, striding towards me, I knew I had found my quarry. Uri looked every inch the Old Testament prophet I hadn’t dared to expect.
It was an appropriate reaction, Uri was a prophet, looking into the future that he saw for Israel and warning of the wrath to come, if the country he loved, did not change course.
