Becky, I will look into Mr.Meir-Levi. Please let me know what books you have read by historians on the history of Israel/Palestine. Still interested.
If Mr. Meir-Levi is advocating a peaceful approach to resolving the conflict, then I may invite him to be a guest on my show. For those of you who have not heard my radio program, it is on Sunday afternoons from 3 to 6 pm. on Free Radio Santa Cruz at 96.3 fm. (on the West side)and 101.1 fm. (on the east side)of Santa Cruz. My show is about peaceful solutions to conflict. I do not interview people who promote violence as the answer. I also present views not often heard in the mainstream media. A few exanples of interviews that I have done on this subject are, Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun (www.tikkun.org) and author of several books, most recently, "Healing Israel/Palestine- A Path to Peace and Reconciliation"; Jeff Halper and Salim Shawamreh of Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (www.icahd.org); Noah Salameh of The Center for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation (www.mideastweb.org/ccrr) and Liad Weingart of Jewish Voice For Peace (www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org). I have also interviewed professors and authors, whose views are rarely heard in the mainstream media. I do not have guests that are racist or promote Sharon's violent tactics or Palestinian fundamentalist's suicide bombings. I am openly biased against such "solutions" to the conflict.
Becky, you claim that I trumpeted an outrageous exxageration of a death toll in Jenin. The only two times that the actual numbers of a death toll in Jenin were mentioned on my show were: 1) When I interviewed a Palestinian man whose name had been given to me by an Israeli woman here in Santa Cruz ( she had worked with him while working with Peace Now in Israel ). I called him in Nablus while he was living under seige from the Israeli military. He stated that he had heard reports that hundreds of people were being killed in Jenin (this was during the attack on Jenin). 2) When I interviewed Stephen Zunes a short while later abd asked him about the figure of 1500, he stated that it was more likely to be a couple of hundred dead, but that we would not know until an investigation had taken place.
In fact it was Israeli military sources who first told the media that 100-200 people may have been killed in Jenin. And it was an Israeli official who first used the word massacre to describe what had occurred there. Please back up your statements about what Palestinian officials had to say with quotes, sources, times and dates.