Jerusalem-born Thinker Meron Benvenisti Has a Message for Israelis: Stop Whining

The notion of a Jewish-democratic state is an oxymoron and the two-state solution will never work. 'This country is a shared land, a single homeland,' he says.

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Meron Benvenisti was my first editor. At the beginning of the 1980s, Ariel Sharon established more than 100 settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. At the beginning of the 1980s, Meron Benvenisti founded a Jerusalem-based information center to monitor the settlements Sharon established. At the beginning of the 1980s, I was a very young, very enthusiastic young volunteer in Peace Now, which thought (rightly) that the settlements Sharon was establishing and that Benvenisti was monitoring were going to lead Israel to perdition. Thus I found myself working for the tempestuous Meron.

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