Can They Stop Likud?
Mustering forces to ward off a Likud victory in Israel’s November elections, Ret. Gen. Mattityahu Peled, a Progressive List for Peace (PLP) Knesset member, and Badr Unis, PLP executive board member, have been stumping US audiences to support their independent Arab-Jewish peace party. Founded just months before the 1984 Israeli elections, the PLP holds two seats in the 84-member Knesset, one by Peled and the other by Palestinian Mohammed Miari. Addressing an audience of Los Angeles Jewish and Arab peace leaders and Democratic Party activists in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Sabri El Farra recently, Peled and Unis urged those assembled to urge their Arab and progressive Jewish relatives in Israel to vote for the PLP. “If the PLP can grow to three or four Knesset seats in the next election, then we can be a legitimate bloc,” explained Unis, who is awaiting trial in Israel with six other Jewish and Arab PLP board members for advocating peace talks with the PLO. Aware of a bill to ban any party
