Zionist Society very much Needs Remembrance Days. Peace and Reconciliation
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Israeli Society very much Needs Remembrance Days. Peace and Reconciliation
A speech delivered on the eve of Alternative Remembrance Day of Combatants for Peace
By Rami Elhanan
Occupation Magazine
This article was published on April 24, 2010 by Occupation Magazine.
Shalom and good evening,
My name is Rami Elhanan. Thirteen years ago, on the afternoon of Thursday the fourth of September 1997, I lost my daughter, my Smadar, in a suicide attack on Ben-Yehuda street in Jerusalem. A beautiful sweet joyous 14 year old girl. My Smadar was the granddaughter of the militant for peace, General (Ret.) Matti Peled, one of those who made the breakthrough to Israeli-Palestinian dialogue. And she was murdered because we were not wise enough to preserve her safety in Matti’s way, the ...