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554:, a film about his life, he stated “I’ve lived under three regimes in this country: four years with the Turks, 30 years with the British and now with Israel…I see no future for my offspring in this country. We’re heading for ruin and destruction. I think the state won’t exist in 50-100 years.”
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Lebanon as a private citizen. According to Edward Alexander, in a chapter surveying what he calls 'Antisemitism, Israeli-style,' Yermiya is said to have made a profession of giving speeches around the world that draw on an analogy between Israel and Nazi Germany, and to have affirmed in an
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Zionism was a failure, and that the State of Israel was ultimately doomed. In July 2009, he wrote to friends expressing his despair at the situation in Israel and Palestine, and concluding
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and invade southern
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Kaufman, ‘Forgetting the Lebanese War? On silence, denial, and the selective remembrance of the "First” Lebanese War,' in Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, Ruth Ginio, Jay Winter (eds),
864:"המג"ד ואיש ההגנה דב ירמיה שהפך לפעיל שמאל בולט נפטר בגיל (Regimental commander and Haganah figure Dov Yermiya, who became a leading figure of the left, has died aged 101)"
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secretary. A romantic relationship developed, and
Yermiya divorced Gronia to marry her. In 1956, their son Raz was born. Yermiya introduced Mor to his friend,
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interview that he and his friends thought as early as 1945 that the
Holocaust would "affect Jews in Israel ... for the bad." In 1986, he met PLO officials in
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was a childhood friend of his. In school, he displayed musical talent, and at age 15, he conducted a student's choir and composed melodies.
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were killed. When
Yermiya learned of this, he filed a complaint that led to the two officers' trial and conviction in a military court.
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broke out, he urged
Israeli soldiers to refuse to serve in the Palestinian territories, and was arrested on suspicion of incitement.
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propagandist. Yermiya also resigned from his job as security coordinator for the Ga'aton Regional Council.
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