News from Within: Palestine/Israel Podcast - Israel's Missed Opportunities for Peace: From the Six-Day War of June 1967 to the Present
This week
marks the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War of June 1967, which
resulted in Israel’s
occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights.
As time has passed and the occupation has become an increasingly permanent
reality, the question remains as to why peace has continued to be unattainable
for Israel.
Many claim that even the June 1967 War was a direct consequence of Israel’s
inability or unwillingness to accept the comprises that peace requires.
On Monday,
the 4th of June, 2007, we spoke with long-time Israeli peace
activist Uri Avnery
at his home in Tel Aviv. Mr. Avnery, who was born in Germany in 1923 and moved to
Mandate Palestine at the age of ten, is an Israeli journalist and former
Knesset member.
We
discussed his assessments of the political context before and after the ’67 War,
missed opportunities for negotiation during this period, his involvement in
1970 in an indirect communication between the Egyptian leader Gamel Abd-al-Nasser
and the Israeli government, in which Nasser made clear that he was ready to
make peace and establish both diplomatic and commercial relations with Israel,
and finally, we spoke of the ongoing situation today on the eve of the war’s
anniversary.
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