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Shukri Abu Baker, on The General’s Son.
About a year ago I was invited to speak in Texas by a local branch of Students for Justice in Palestine. After my lecture I had the opportunity to speak to some of the student activists and it so happened that several of them were the daughters of the HLF 5. Five men who were [...]
Q&A at the end of a Great Event at L.A. Levantine Center
Another terrific event at The LA Levantine Center
Nabi Saleh, Summer 2012. By Miko Peled
This past summer I drove once again from Jerusalem to Nabi Saleh, a small village in the West Bank known for its ongoing resistance to Israel, and this time I noted the landmarks along the way: Ofer military Prison, built like a fortress, grey and menacing where countless Palestinian political prisoners are held because of [...]
September 4 Is a Sad Day.
September 4, 1997 was the day my niece Smadar was killed. For my family and I it will forever be a sad day, a day that brings bad tidings. It was September 4 when that phone call came from my mother telling me that there was an explosion in Jerusalem, even as I was watching [...]
Can Sparta be Stopped? By Miko Peled
A senior Israel government official, who is strongly believed to be Israel’s Defense Minister General Ehud Barak, was quoted in Haaretz saying “The blade that rests on our neck today is more dangerous than the blade that threatened us in 1967.” In spite of evidence that clearly proves Israel was not under any threat in [...]
On One State
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, [...]
Miko Peled 