MIKO PELED; ONE STATE SOLUTION FOR PALESTINE

According to Miko Peled, until now the Palestinian people have not received 3 main rights; the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland, the right to fight, including with weapons, the right to decide to create their own state. The two-state solution is not a solution, the only solution is one state for a democratic Palestinian nation. Peled’s maternal grandfather, Avraham Katznelson was a signer on the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His father, Matti Peled was a general in the Israeli army and pioneered an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue in the 1970’s which led him to meeting Yasser Arafat in an effort to convene him to recognize the State of Israel and adopt the Two State Solution. In 1997, Miko’s sister lost her daughter, Smadar, in a suicide bombing in Jerusalem. This tragedy is what finally drove Miko to embark on his journey to discover Palestine. life transformation, titled “The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine.” This autobiographical work taking the reader through the life of Peled’s family since his grandparents immigrated to Palestine in the early 20th century, describing their work and their life in detail.