This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Six Day War of June 1967, which resulted in Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights. As time has passed and the occupation has become an increasingly permanent reality, the question remains as to why peace has continued to be unattainable for Israel. Many claim that even the June 1967 War was a direct consequence of Israel’s inability or unwillingness to accept the comprises that peace requires.

On Monday, the 4th of June, 2007, The Alternative Information Center spoke with long-time Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery at his home in Tel Aviv. Mr. Avnery, who was born in Germany in 1923 and moved to Mandate Palestine at the age of ten, is an Israeli journalist and former Knesset member.

This program was produced by the Alternative Information Center for June 6, 2007.

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• AIC: On “This Regime Which is not One – Occupation and Democracy Between the Sea and the River, 1967 to the Present”
• Binational Currents in Israel and Palestine on the Anniversary of 40 Years of Occupation
• Perspectives on the 1967 Six Day War: John Quigley on refugee rights
• Perspectives on the 1967 Six Day War: Voices from 1967
• Perspectives on the 1967 Six Day War: Yakov Rabkin
• Perspectives on the 1967 Six Day War: Ali Abunimah and Assad AbuKhalil
• IMEMC: This Week In Palestine – June 9, 2007
• AIC: Changing Israeli Visa Regime for International Humanitarian Workers
• AIC: The Palestine Kairos Document
• AIC: Economy, Development and Occupation