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Following in the footsteps of his father, a Zionist hero, toward a free and democratic Palestine
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Haaretz (One of Israel's leading newspapers)


Haaretz (One of Israel's leading newspapers), April 8, 2013
Posted: March 31st, 2014
http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/following-in-the-footst...

If Miko Peleds memoir The Generals Son were made into a movie, it would open with this scene: In his San Diego home in 1997, while casually watching CNN, he catches a glimpse of a young girl on a stretcher. Theres been a suicide bombing on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem. As if on cue, he receives a phone call from his mother in Israel saying that his 13-year-old niece Smadar, daughter of his sister Nurit, is missing. Somehow, he knows instinctively shes the girl he saw on TV. This fear is confirmed several agonizing hours later, when her body is found at a morgue. He must fly back to Israel immediately, as the state funeral for the granddaughter of General Matti Peled, the Independence War hero..., awaits his return. This moment in 1997 marks the beginning of a powerful personal and political journey, recounted in Peleds new book in a style that is part confessional, part cinematic epic and part emotional appeal for different answers to the Israeli-Palestinian conundrum. His sister Nurits adamant stance that the occupation was to blame for her daughters death was also a key factor. She said, no real mother would want this to happen to another mother, recalls Peled, and for me that crystallized how morally unjustifiable retaliation is. If there were a democratic single state tomorrow, he argues, would people vote along ethnic or religious lines? Or would they vote for someone who promised better schools, roads and lower taxes? I think the latter. The one-state solution is inevitable, he says, not because Israelis are changing, but because the current situation cannot continue.

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