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DESCRIPTION:Israeli peace activist and author MIKO PELED with his riveting new 
 memoir,\n"The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine" (Foreward 
 by Alice Walker)\n\nIn 1997, tragedy struck Miko Peled's Israeli-American 
 family, when his beloved niece Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber in 
 Jerusalem-pushing him to re-examine many beliefs he grew up with, as the 
 son and grandson of leading figures in Israel's political-military elite. 
 The General's Son provides an intimate window into the fears that haunt 
 both Israelis and Palestinians, while also showing the courage of those who 
 pursue a steadfast grassroots struggle for equality for all the residents 
 of Palestine and Israel.\n\nThere are few books on the Israel/Palestine 
 issue that seem as hopeful to me as this one.\n-Alice Walker, from the 
 Foreword\n\nWhen the State of Israel was being created and many 
 Palestinians had to flee their homes because of fear for their safety 
 during the Arab/Israeli war, Miko again describes the stories his mother 
 remembers. "I knew the Palestinian families as a child growing up in 
 Jerusalem."...As the wife of an Israeli General, she was offered a 
 Palestinian family's home. She refused, saying to her son Miko, "That I 
 should take the home of a family that may be living in a refugee camp? The 
 home of another mother?" She felt ashamed.\n--from book review by 
 Palestinian-American journalist Leila 
 Diab\nhttp://justworldbooks.com/review-leila-diab-the-generals-son-miko-peled/\n\nIntroduced 
 by Dr. Hisham Ahmed\nBorn in Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem, as a 
 Fulbright scholar Dr. Ahmed wrote his book From Religious Salvation to 
 Political Transformation: The Rise of Hamas in Palestinian Society. He is 
 currently Professor of Politics at St. Mary's College.\n\nASL interpreted, 
 wheelchair accessible\nCosponsored by department of Global Studies, KPFA, 
 Jewish Voice for Peace, CODE PINK, Bay Area Women in Black, San Francisco 
 Women in Black\n\nBenefit for Clean Water for Children in Gaza\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/07/18721108.php
SUMMARY:Israeli Peace Activist Miko Peled
LOCATION:Berkeley City College\n2050 Center Street\nBerkeley, CA 94704\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/07/18721108.php
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