Uri Avnery is a veteran of Israel’s 1948 war, a former Member of the Knesset, founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement and winner of the 2001 Right Livelihood Award, often called the “alternative Nobel Peace Prize.” His book “1948: A Soldier’s Tale, the Bloody Road to Jerusalem,” which was published in Hebrew soon after the 1948 war and was a bestseller in Israel, has just been translated into English for the first time by Oneworld Publications.
The following humble suggestions are based on my 70 years of experience as an underground fighter, member of the Knesset and founding member of a peace movement in Israel.
