את תחילת יוני 1967 ביליתי בעודי יושב עם אמי ואחיותיי בשירותים בקומה התחתונה של ביתנו במוצא, במורדות ירושלים. חדר השירותים שימש לנו למקלט מאחר ובבתינו החדש לא היה מקלט, ולמרות שאבי היה מאלופי צה"ל באותה תקופה, לא ידענו מה מצפה לנו. לא עלה על דעתנו שהמלחמה שזה עתה החלה תסתיים תוך ששה ימים. איש לא העלה [...]
Month: June 2012
The 45th birthday of the Occupation Nurit Peled-Elhanan
9 June 2012 I dedicate my words this evening to three hunger-strikers. Mahmoud Sarsak, who has been striking for 83 days. An excellent football player from Gaza, he was arrested three years ago under the Law against Illegal Combatants, which permits him to be imprisoned for life, without a trial and without charge. Akram Rikhawi, [...]
Review of The General’s Son, by Steve Kowit in the San Diego UT
The author of this engaging and important memoir is a sixth-degree black belt who runs a thriving karate school in Coronado. He is also the son of one of Israel’s most notable generals and political dissidents, Matti Peled, a war hero who shocked Israel several decades ago by becoming a vocal peace advocate and a [...]
June 9, 2012 Miko Peled's Op-Ed article on Wednesday about Israel's 1967 war prompted reader Desmond Tuck of San Mateo, Calif., to write: "I share Miko Peled's dream of peace in the Middle East. But his article brought the expression 'Monday morning quarterback' to mind. When Hitler was poised to enter the Sudetenland and no one stopped [...]
My Piece in LA Times on 6 Day War. (from ch. 2 of my book)
6 Days, 45 Years Ago By Miko Peled June 6, 2012 In early June 1967, as I cowered with my mother and sisters in the "safest" room of our house near Jerusalem — the downstairs bathroom — we feared the worst. None of us imagined that the war that had just begun would end in six days. [...]
Miko Peled 