دانلود کتاب My Friend, the Enemy

This is the story of the secret contacts between a daring group of Israeli patriots and the PLO — told by the man who started them in 1974 and who became the first Israeli politician to meet Yassir Arafat. In July 1982, at the height of the Lebanon war, Uri Avnery crossed the battle lines in Beirut for a meeting with the PLO leader. This was the culmination of a clandestine operation which had started eight years previously when the author first met in deepest secrecy with a high-ranking PLO official in London. These contacts led to secret meetings in various countries, involving kings, presidents and statesmen from half a dozen governments. They included Yitzhak Rabin and Menahem Begin; King Hassan of Morocco and President Bourguiba; the late Sa’id Hammami and Issam Sartawi from the PLO; as well as prominent European socialist leaders like ex-Premier Mendes-France and ex-—Chancellor Bruno Kreisky who were the first European statesmen to take the PLO seriously. This is also a warm personal story about people from both sides who risked and sometimes gave their lives in the cause of peace. With many personal insights and exciting episodes, it is an analysis by a person uniquely qualified to write it--a former underground fighter, commando wounded in battle, member of the Israeli Knesset and leading journalist. Uri Avnery saw from close range all the important developments in Israel following the creation of the Jewish state, and was intimately involved in many of them.