MERIP
Media Resource List, March 27, 2006
AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS on
the following topics:
- Israeli election
MITCHELL PLITNICK
Mitchell Plitnick is Director
of Education and Policy for Jewish
Voice for Peace. He writes analysis for the JVP newsletter
and is an editor of Jewish Peace News. He said today: "Kadima
has been miscast as a centrist party because of the rightward
drift of Israeli government policies."
YOAV
PELED
Yoav Peled is professor
of political science at Tel Aviv University. He is co-author
with Gershon Shafir of Being Israeli: The Dynamics of
Multiple Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
In his recent Middle East Report Online article,
"Dual War: The Legacy
of Ariel Sharon," Peled lays out the economic and
likely electoral effects of the past five years of Sharon's
policies, those that have made Kadima popular.
PERETZ
KIDRON
Peretz Kidron is a writer and broadcaster living in Jerusalem.
He is the editor of Refusenik! Israel's Soldiers of Conscience
(Zed 2004) about Israeli soldiers who refuse to serve the
occupation.
Background
:
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Yoav Peled, "Dual
War: The Legacy of Ariel Sharon," Middle East
Report Online , March 22, 2006
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Peretz Kidron, "Less
'Big Bang' Than an Earthquake," Middle East Report
Online , January 18, 2006
+ Jewish
Voice for Peace, Oakland, CA
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