Miko Peled is a peace activist who dares to say in public what others still choose to deny. Born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family, his grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His Father, Matti Peled, was a young officer in the war of 1948 and a general in the war of 1967 when Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and Sinai. Miko’s unlikely opinions reflect his father’s legacy. General Peled was a war hero turned peacemaker. Miko grew up in Jerusalem, a multi-ethnic city, but had to leave Israel before he made his first Palestinian friend, the result of his participation in a dialogue group in California. He was 39. On September 4, 1997 the beloved Smadar, 13, the daughter of Miko’s sister Nurit and her husband Rami Elhanan was killed in a suicide attack. Peled insists that Israel/Palestine is one state—the separation wall notwithstanding, massive investment in infrastructure, towns and highways that bisect and connect settlements on the West Bank, have destroyed the possibility for a viable Palestinian state. The result, Peled says is that Israelis and Palestinians are governed by the same government but live under different sets of laws. At the heart of Peled’s conclusion lies the realization that Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace as equals in their shared homeland.
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amazing is the word i can make up from this video congratulations Miko Peled
God bless Miko Peled and bless the honourable Israel he represents which needs to speak out in greater numbers against the crimes and abuses as well as the relentless land theft committed by the Israeli regime under Netanyahu, Lieberman and company with the support and compllicity of the US Government..
@zigarela i couldn’t have said it better. this is what God had in mind when IT created us, and not the self-serving, indifferent, scared zombies that many of us have become. at some point in our lives, we have to wake up and stand strongly against what is wrong. what israel and USA are doing to palestinians is just plain wrong. even if it kills us, it’s better than living a mediocre life of selling out.
There are many, many righteous Jews who support freedom for the Palestinians. How many of us in America feel powerless to stop the killing going on in foreign lands done by American forces? Thank God, some brave people, such as this man, are not afraid to put their lives on the line to fight injustice. May God bless them all. I have no idea if a God exists but if IT does IT will bless these brave souls.
@MariaLaGauchita
Heaven forbid that happens!
SOONER OR LATER MOSAD WILL GET HIM.
He is telling the truth and Israel and its ‘wannabee Mark useless Regev’s’ just do not like what they hear. LOL
A great piece, except for the video that was supposed to show the Arab Spring…it looked like video from April 9, 2003, the fall of Baghdad, the day the US-Israeli occupation of Palestine was extended to Iraq.
What about the many more Jewish refugees that were forced out from Arab lands?
@jjs110 That’s not true? That region used to call the great Syria there was NO Lebanon? Jordan? Palestine? During the Othman empire it was one nation the great Syria?
this guy is sooooooo cool. i have a world of respect for him. when palestinians are free and prosperous in their own country, they should build monuments to their jewish brothers/sisters who spoke truth, fought along side them for what is right even when it cost them.
Brilliant. Previous oppressive regimes have fallen because of people power and Israel will be no different. Lets hope it is sooner rather than later.
@jjs110 You’re a troll. The Israelis deliberately targeted civilians. It is apart of the public record. I think it would be important to reference the goldstone report. How many pages referred to War crimes by Hamas as compared to Israel? Did you even read the report?
@cheersmcgeersss Your statement had such little logic.. it deserves little reply
NO IT IS NOT HONEST AT ALL! GO AND STUDY SOME HISTORY!!!
@MordechayAriely that’s awesome israel technology news mordechay!
have they developed that technology yet that stops them from stealing land and killing innocent people?
@thedwork .
Pls dont use:
*interner multimeia:
Voice over internet was invented by Israel Vocatel company.
*labtops:
All the PCU have been developed by Israel Intel.
However Muslims are free to use Israel medicin for cure:
Be our guest
*Antibiotics targeting cellular regulation based Yonath- Nobel prize winner
*New type of Personal targeted drug based on Hershko&Ciehanover- Nobel prize winner
*The stint preventing hard attacks
*Swallowed camera pill that photographs esophagus
Thanks Mr. Meko, you are the man of the prosperous future for the two nations, you’ve done a very good job,
A refugee from Haifa,
@MordechayAriely to quote the great Ron Burgundy, “You know I don’t speak Spanish. In English please.”
have the israelis invented the awesome technology that allows you to make sense?
@thedwork.
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!Hiding among civilians prevents armies with western values the ability to fight.We impose a new non conventional equation in wars
Said by Hamas leader Khalid Mash’al on Al-Jazeera.
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7 Arab armies attacked the defending Israel.
Arab league declared:
This will be a war of extermination and a massacre which
WILL BE SPOKEN OF LIKE THE MONGOL MASSACRESS
Advice given to the Arabs to
LEAVE AND STAY IN NEIGHBORING STATES.
Later to RETURN AND OBTAIN JWEISH property
@MordechayAriely that’s awesome israel news mordechay!
have they developed that technology yet that stops one from stealing land and killing innocent people?
Israel news
*Israeli professor of computer was 1of 7 recipients of the Emet Prizes for research on logic and software engineering
*Israeli Arab woman entrepreneur Dr. Amal Ayoub heads a high tech startup in Nazareth on DNA irradiation cancer therapy received large funds
*Moscow was ready to pay $1billion and cancelling the S300 deal missile with Iran for Israeli drones technology
*1000 Palestinians received hearing aids as part of humanitarian projects of Israel Sheba Medical Canter
Wow, So eloquent, so emotional. He evokes strength and courage.
And his father supported a completely different point of view. He reminds me of William Joyce.
Joyce, also predicted a wonderful beautiful world were those who didn’t heed his words would face the “tribunal of world justice”
@jjs110 Rabbi Henry Siegman, former executive head of the United Jewish congress (16 years) and former executive head of the Council of American Synagogues has written extensively on the need to deal with Hamas. Hamas is a legitimate winner of the 2006 parliamentary elections and has offered to recognize Israel if Israel recognizes the legitimacy of the Palestinian state and Hamas as part of Palestine.
@TheIndependentView Musafa Barghouti is one of many nonviolent activists. Educated at Stanford U, active in democracy building in the West Bank, Barghouti appeared on the Daily Show with John Stewart.
There are many Palestinian Mandalas. Often they are imprisoned because what Israel fears most, has most difficulty countering, are nonviolent protests against a brutal occupation.