General's son: IDF Zionist Miko Peled defects

Reality Asserts Itself (The Real News Network, 12/12/16); Sheldon S. (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

The General's Son: From Privileged Zionist to Activist for Palestinian Rights - RAI (1/3)

Jewish Israeli Miko Peled

(The Real News Network) On Reality Asserts Itself (RAI), for Israeli government soldier Miko Peled tells RAI Host Paul Jay that his father, a famous Israeli general, was ostracized for saying it was necessary to negotiate with the PLO and respect Palestinian self-determination.

But he never gave up his belief that the expulsion of the hundreds of thousands of native Palestinian inhabitants ("Arabs of Israel") in 1948 for the creation of a "Jewish state" was justified.

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2/3: General's Son: From Privileged Zionist to Activist for Palestinian Rights

ABOUT: Miko Peled is a Jewish author, writer, speaker, and human rights activist living in the United States. He is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and the creation of a single democracy with equal rights in all of historic Palestine. More: Miko Peled

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