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[[Image:Adam_Keller.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''Adam Keller'' (front right) with the former Palestinian President [[Yasser Arafat]] (center) in 2004]] |
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'''Adam Keller''' (born 1955 in [[Tel Aviv|Tel Aviv-Yafo]]) is an Israeli [[conscientious objector]], |
'''Adam Keller''' (born 1955 in [[Tel Aviv|Tel Aviv-Yafo]]) is an Israeli [[conscientious objector]], peace-activist and writer. He was among the founders of [[Gush Shalom]], of which he is a spokesperson. |
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He has lived in [[Holon]] since 1987. He is married with one son. He studied History in [[Tel Aviv University]]{{Fact|date=February 2007}} and has an affinity to [[science fiction]] and [[Suspense|suspense literature]]. |
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==Political Views== |
==Political Views== |
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In 1986, he was one of several activists who broke Israeli law by meeting [[PLO]] representatives in Romania and in 1988, during the first [[Intifada]], after refusing to serve in Lebanon and being assigned kitchen duties Keller was court-martialled after spraying graffiti on 117 Israeli tanks and other military vehicles, exhorting "Soldiers refuse to be occupiers and aggressors. Don't go to the occupied territories".<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,911588,00.html The Guardian: 'I realised the stupidity of it'] (Source is not [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|WP:RS]])</ref> |
In 1986, he was one of several activists who broke Israeli law by meeting [[PLO]] representatives in Romania and in 1988, during the first [[Intifada]], after refusing to serve in Lebanon and being assigned kitchen duties Keller was court-martialled after spraying graffiti on 117 Israeli tanks and other military vehicles, exhorting "Soldiers refuse to be occupiers and aggressors. Don't go to the occupied territories".<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,911588,00.html The Guardian: 'I realised the stupidity of it'] (Source is not [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|WP:RS]])</ref> |
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In April 2004, he was a member of a Gush Shalom delegation who visited [[Palestinian Authority]] leader [[Yassir Arafat]] at his headquarters in [[Ramallah]], to protest at Israeli prime minister [[Ariel Sharon]]'s threats against Arafat's life. |
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===Criticism=== |
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<ref>[http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/he/channels/archive/past_activities/actions_mukata2_heb Gush Shalom: Gush Shalom Members Visit Arafat]{{Languageicon|he|Hebrew}}</ref> |
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He and his group have been described as part of the "lunatic fringe leftists" by [[Nachum Barnea]], a senior correspondand for [[Yedioth Ahronoth]] who stated: "Except for the lunatic fringe leftists, no one disputes that Israel had to react to the killing and kidnapping perpetrated by Hizbullah in our territory"<ref>[http://www.nieuwsfeit.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1258&Itemid=113 Nieuwsfeit: 'Day 20 of the Lebanon carnage' by Adam Keller]</ref> and he has marched alongside [[Hamas]]' [[Abu Tir|Sheick Abu Tir]] and other Hamas and [[Fatah]] leadship denouncing what they describe as the [[apartheid wall]]<ref>[http://www.livecity.co.il/site/detail/detail/detailDetail.asp?detail_id=195683&depart_id=23941 On The Left Side: 'Palestinian-Israeli rally in Jerusalem' by Adam Keller]{{Languageicon|he|Hebrew}}</ref>. |
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He has been active in joint Israeli-Palestinian protests against the [[apartheid wall]] <ref>[http://www.livecity.co.il/site/detail/detail/detailDetail.asp?detail_id=195683&depart_id=23941 Israeli-Palestinian demonstration at Ar-Ram in Jerusalem]{{Languageicon|he|Hebrew}}</ref>. |
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===Publications=== |
===Publications=== |
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*[[Gush Shalom]] |
*[[Gush Shalom]] |
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*[[Uri Avneri]] |
*[[Uri Avneri]] |
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*[[Gilad Shalit]] |
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*[[Arab-Israeli conflict]] |
*[[Arab-Israeli conflict]] |
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*[[List of Middle East peace proposals]] |
*[[List of Middle East peace proposals]] |
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Revision as of 00:30, 12 March 2007
Adam Keller (born 1955 in Tel Aviv-Yafo) is an Israeli conscientious objector, peace-activist and writer. He was among the founders of Gush Shalom, of which he is a spokesperson.
He has lived in Holon since 1987. He is married with one son. He studied History in Tel Aviv University[citation needed] and has an affinity to science fiction and suspense literature.
Political Views
A long-standing supporter of Yesh Gvul, Keller has served several prison terms for refusing reserve military duty in what he describes as the 1967-occupied territories.
In 1986, he was one of several activists who broke Israeli law by meeting PLO representatives in Romania and in 1988, during the first Intifada, after refusing to serve in Lebanon and being assigned kitchen duties Keller was court-martialled after spraying graffiti on 117 Israeli tanks and other military vehicles, exhorting "Soldiers refuse to be occupiers and aggressors. Don't go to the occupied territories".[1]
In April 2004, he was a member of a Gush Shalom delegation who visited Palestinian Authority leader Yassir Arafat at his headquarters in Ramallah, to protest at Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's threats against Arafat's life. [2]
He has been active in joint Israeli-Palestinian protests against the apartheid wall [3].
Publications
Keller is editor of The Other Israel [4], the publication of the a group called 'The Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace'. He is the author of Terrible Days: Social Divisions and Political Paradoxes in Israel (Amstelveen 1987; ISBN 90-71261-02-6).
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