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Matti Peled의 딸 Nurit Peled-Elhanan도 아들 Miko Peled도 그리고 사위 Rami Elhanan도 모두 peace activist다. 

 

Colum McCann, "Apeirogon: A Novel" (2020)에서

 

On the morning after the bombing Netanyahu called.... Nurit picked it up. She knew Netanyahu from school. They had been college friends. A journalist in the room overheard the conversation. No, Nurie said, he was not welcome in her house. Not now, not for shiva [a seven-day Jewish mourning period following a burial], no, please do not show your face. She put the phone down, then tipped the receiver over so it was off the hook. The next day the conversation was news. She was interviewed again later in the week. The killing was not the fault of the bombers, she said. The bombers were victims too. Israel was culpable. The blood was on its hands. On Netanyahu's hands. On her own hands too, she said. She was not immune, everyone was complicit. Oppression. Tyranny. Megalomania. She was shown on national TV. Pundits said she was just in shock. It wasn't shock at all, she replied. The only shock was that the Palestinian bombings didn't happen more often. Israel was inviting its own children to be slaughtered, she said.... It would never be at peace until it recognized this.... On the right-wing radio stations, it was said that she wasn't properly Jewsih at all, she had been brainwashed, her father had become a peacenik after all, he had betrayed Israel. (p. 349)

 

그러고 보면 뉴욕 타임즈 칼럼니스트 Bret Stephens는 Nurit Peled-Elhanan과는 대각선적으로 대조가 된다.

 

 

 

Nurit Peled-Elhanan (사진: wikipedia에서)