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Palestinian/Jewish-American dialogue group in San Diego, where he "found that the Jewish Americans he met – with their 'New York humor and deli food' – were more foreign than the hummus, tabouleh and warm hospitality offered by his new Palestinian friends. He was shocked by random anti-Arab venom spewed casually by Jewish Americans he met who assumed he shared their views, in an atmosphere of growing Islamophobia." He also befriended Nader Elbanna, "a Palestinian from Nazareth who accompanied him on a dual lecture series at rotary clubs." Thus began a process whereby, in the words of Abulhawa, Peled "dismantled a lifetime of racist assumptions and replaced them with something more human and tender."
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He has also written that Israel's educational system is designed to turn
Israeli children into racists who view Palestinians "as culturally inferior, violent and bent on the annihilation of the Jews, and...void of a true national identity," and "as a problem that must be solved and as a threat that must be eliminated." He has decried "absurd comparisons like that of Yasser Arafat to Hitler, the Palestinians to Nazis, and the Palestinian resistance to Al Qaeda."
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lusts for blood," has called the peace process "a process of apartheid & colonization", and has accused
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Miko Peled followed his father's footsteps at first, joining Israel's
Special Forces after high school and earning the red beret, but he soon grew to regret his decision. He surrendered his status as soon as he earned it, becoming a medic, but finally, disgusted by the
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