RePortersNoteBook.com: A Jim Dean POST....

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/02/27/jim-w-dean-a-crazy-prophet-by-uri-avnery/

"Uri Avnery" "After kidnapping attempt, 1955"

Dear folks, Many of you know my attraction to the remaining 80+ year old walking historians among us.

Uri Avnery is in my top ten...leaving Nazi Germany as a boy...joining the Irgun at 14, and leaving them a few years later over their terrorist tactics and colonialism goals.

To get into the Knesset he started a new political party which won two seats the first time out. What motivated him??? The Knesset had passed a law specifically banning his opposition newspaper. His revenge was getting into the Knesset and torturing them with a 1000 speeches...a wonderful example of working from the inside. He has also paid a great personal price, and it a sterling example of both leadership and courage.

With Heritage TV initially, and now with VT...spotlighting, leveraging the great work of others has always been a top goal. I learn from them in the process and will hopefully be in their league one day.

I put some time in hunting down the historical photos and found some gems. Multimedia is here to stay. The competition for eyeballs on the Net is intense. Readers want help in digging into the

behind the scenes stuff.

"Ben-Gurion" "Uri Avnery" "first day in the Knesset

Ben-Gurion and Uri...first day in the Knesset...1967

The other reason I choose Uri is he pretty much has a media ban on him in America as he is such a devastating critic of the Radical Zionists...colonialist, imperialists...Jewish supremacists to the bone.

Uri is a member of what was called in the early years, a cultural Zionist...the folks who wanted to live in Palestine but had not desire or interest in kicking the Arabs out and taking over the place. But alas, they are a definite minority over there...despite the ruling elite they have dominating the country. About 20 families own most of the business capital, and the country have become a base for huge international crime syndicates of every shape and color...drugs, human trafficking, money laundering, weapons sales, contact espionage work, etc. The list goes on and on.