[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Teddy Katz plans a speaking tour in North America second half of March, first part of April

[Alfred Kagan]

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> From: "Gush Shalom" <otherisr at actcom.co.il>
> Date: January 30, 2005 3:59:36 PM CST
> To: intl at mailman.gush-shalom.org
> Subject: Teddy Katz plans a speaking tour in North America second half 
> of March, first part of  April
>
> Teddy Katz plans speaking tour in North America
> Open for invitations
> For US and Canadian organizations only (with excused to all others who 
> get this)
>  
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> ==========================================================
> I'm one of those Israelis, not all too many, who passed a very sharp 
> change in their life, how they view Israel, its birth and its way of 
> life, inside & outside - says Teddy Katz who plans a speaking tour in 
> North America second half of March, first part April.
> ==========================================================
>
> Gush Shalom organizing member Teddy Katz (yes, the Tantura historian) 
> will be in the United States the second half of March, and first part 
> of April. He is open for invitations.
>  
> If you are in principle interested, please let us know:
>  
> * whether you (your organization) can contribute to the travel expenses
> * which dates you would prefer
>  
> I will try from Israel to coordinate the tour, hoping for the 
> initiative and help from those interested.
>   
> Beate Zilversmidt
> Gush Shalom Infoteam (international outreach)
>  
>
> Hereafter Teddy's personal story
>  
>
> Teddy Katz, 29.1.2005
>  
> Personal Story,  personal points of view
>  
> I was born in Haifa, 1943.
>  
> I'm a member of kibbutz Magal since 1962. Magal was established at the 
> west side of the Israeli border that was called the Green Line, 
> located on a land that was taken after the war of 1948 from the 
> Palestinian village Zeita.
>  
> I'm married and have three children. The forth, who was the elder one, 
> was killed in a terrible truck accident in the army, 40 days before 
> the end of her military service.
>  
> After having started studying in the university at a later age I 
> finished my M.A. in History at the Middle East in Haifa University 
> with an "excellent" though the paper which I wrote afterwards caused a 
> years-long controversy..
>  
> I'm an active member of the "Peace Camp" in Israel in the last 15 
> years, mainly in "'Gush Shalom". At the same time I'm a member of the 
> leadership of "'Meretz"', the Jewish-Arab party, trying very hard to 
> convince my colleges there towards my conceptions.
> I was attacked hardly by the right parties in Israel & the 
> "Alexandrony" Brigade veterans of the 1948's war, after the publishing 
> of a media interview about my M.A. research about the big massacre in 
> the Palestinian village of Tantura, being done by the Israeli army in 
> May, 1948.
> I'm one of those Israelis, not all too many, who passed a very sharp 
> change in their life, how they view Israel, its birth and its way of 
> life, inside & outside. From being a messenger (shaliach) of the 
> Jewish Agency to Mexico, with the task of sending Jews to the "Holy 
> Land" (1979 – 1982), I find myself now in a situation, in which I have 
> many many doubts about the Israeli moral behavior towards the 
> Palestinians, which is the origin of grave troubles in the whole zone, 
> and inside the state – poor & rich Israelis, Sefaradies & Ashkenazies, 
> Israeli Palestinians etc.
> This is the reason that I'm ready to go, almost everywhere, to explain 
> to everyone the problematic situation we have in the Middle East and 
> the solutions possible.
>   
> There is very much to talk about:
>  Israel, ideas & reality
>  the Israeli "famous democracy", including Israeli Palestinians
>  the kibbutz life, compared to others' life in Israel
>  Israeli moral, nowadays & in history
>  from Tantura, 1948 via Jenin, 2002 to Gaza, Beit Hanun & Rafah in 
> 2004.
> It is important to talk about other states & organizations options to 
> have an active, or more active part in everything that happens in and 
> around Israel.
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