September 29, 2012, Tikun Olamתיקון עולם
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Miko Peled, an Israeli peace activist and son of an IDF general, will be speaking in Seattle on October 1st. He will be publicizing his new book, The General’s Son.
Miko is the brother of Prof. Yoav Peled, a political science professor at Tel Aviv University. When I was doing an MA in Comparative Literature at UCLA, Yoav was doing his masters in Jewish history there. We were active in Israeli peace issues on campus. I published one of Yoav’s essays here a few months ago
They are a truly extraordinary family as was their father, Matti. In 1986, I hosted a Los Angeles talk by Matti Peled and a West Bank mayor affiliated with the PLO. The national tour, sponsored by New Jewish Agenda, was one of the first times that an Israeli and Palestinian had appeared together on a U.S. stage. They were both brave men. It has been years, if not decades since an IDF general could hold views as challenging to the status quo and conventional wisdom as Peled did.
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