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Uri Grossman, Son 'Peace Now' Activist Killed in Lebanon

by Oui
Mon Aug 14th, 2006 at 02:55:26 PM EST

Israeli Author's Son, 20, Is Killed in Battle

HAIFA (New York Times) Aug. 14 -- The 20-year-old son of David Grossman, one of the nation's most prominent writers and peace advocates, was killed Saturday in fighting in Lebanon.

Staff Sergeant Uri Grossman, 20, was killed in a missile strike, days after his father made an international appeal for peace.

Uri Grossman, a tank commander, was killed in fighting on 12 August (BBC News)

Uri Grossman, a tank commander, was one of 24 Israeli defence force soldiers killed in fierce fighting against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Saturday.

The family said in a statement that Uri had planned to travel and study theatre in November once he had served his time in the military.

Last Thursday, Mr Grossman gave a joint news conference with fellow writers Amos Oz and A B Yehoshua, calling on the government to stop fighting. The group urged Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to seek a diplomatic solution.

David Grossman, 52, has written extensively on Israeli-Palestinian relations, as well as books for children. His work has been published in at least 20 languages. The Haaretz website said the writer had spent the early part of the war reading books to children in bomb shelters in northern Israel.

David Grossman, 52, slight and soft-spoken, is often described as the anguished conscience of Israel. He is the author of best-selling novels including as "The Smile of the Lamb" and "See Under: LOVE" and the book-length political treatise "The Yellow Wind," about Israel's occupation of the West Bank.

«« click image for Grossman's books

Throughout Israel's first war in Lebanon, from 1982 to 2000, and during the first intifada in the late 1980's, Mr. Grossman and his wife, Michal Grossman, were frequent participants in antiwar rallies and demonstrations. Often they were accompanied by their two young sons, Yonatan and Uri.

● Meretz, Peace Now to join anti-war protest
● Prominent authors to PM: Accept ceasefire plan

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Cindy Sheehan, peace activist, in Crawford

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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Uri Grossman, Son 'Peace Now' Activist Killed in Lebanon | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Killed in Lebanon (4.00 / 3)

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die?

Jhon Kerry

If you want me to go back to the place that I was born, tell your corporations to leave my country (Leon Gieco)

by cruz del sur (nicodk@sbcglobal.net) on Tue Aug 15th, 2006 at 08:39:44 AM EST

Jimmy Carter on ME Peace (none / 1)

On America's role in achieving peace in the Middle East:

«« click for Der Spiegel interview

CARTER: Yes, as a matter of fact as you know ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton. This administration has not attempted at all in the last six years to negotiate or attempt to negotiate a settlement between Israel and any of its neighbors or the Palestinians.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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by Oui on Tue Aug 15th, 2006 at 04:33:48 PM EST

Halutz Sold Shares Hours Before War (none / 0)

Staff General Dan Halutz Rejects Calls to Resign

Chief of Staff Dan Halutz has no intention of resigning following the public and political outcry against him after daily Maariv published a story that he had sold stocks several hours after a Hezbollah raid inside Israel on July 12. Halutz has rejected the criticism against him, calling it "malicious." Senior General Staff officers said Halutz should resign immediately.

Dan Halutz

According to the report, three hours after Hezbollah attacked an IDF patrol and abducted two soldiers , at 12 P.M., Halutz called his investment adviser at the Bank Leumi branch on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv and ordered him to sell the shares in his investment portfolio, worth NIS 120,000. Over the next two days the value of the stock in the Tel Aviv stock exchange lost 8.3 percent of its value.

During the hours that the chief of staff was avoiding financial losses, he was also participating in meetings with the General Staff and the defense minister, in which he recommended a heavy air assault against Lebanon, resulting in an escalation and a full scale war between Israel and Hezbollah.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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by Oui on Wed Aug 16th, 2006 at 09:53:28 AM EST

Re: Uri Grossman, Son 'Peace Now' Activist Killed (none / 1)

A little different topic but I just read this on uruknet.info.
August 15, 2006

We're counting from the day Germany declared war on the US (December 11, 1941) to VE day (May 8, 1945). This is 1244 days. The Invasion of Iraq began on March 20, 2003 at 21:34 EST when the US began their first air strike on Baghdad.

On August 15, 2006 21:30 EST the United States will have been at war in Iraq longer than it was at war with Germany in World War II.

The difference between theists and atheists is that the atheists don't set the theists on fire for refusing to agree with them.

by KNUCKLEHEAD on Wed Aug 16th, 2006 at 08:28:52 PM EST

Uri Grossman, Son 'Peace Now' Activist Killed in Lebanon | 4 comments (4 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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