Uri Avnery, the famous writer on Israel-Palestine relations, indicates, in an article in the newspaper, Gush Shalom, on Nov. 3. that, in 1946, he called for a a Peace Ministry. He states that: …”since the achievement of peace was the main task of the state, it was unacceptable that there was no professional body dealing exclusively with this matter. I proposed the creation of a special Peace Ministry. The Foreign Office, I maintained, was unsuited to this task, since its main function was to wage the international struggle against the Arab world. To popularize the idea, I said that as a counterweight to the ‘khaki General Staff’. which prepares war operations, we needed a ‘white General Staff,’ which would prepare peace operations.”

Uri repeated that call in the Knesset(Israeli Parliament) ten years later and here he does so again. Imagine how the course of history in the Middle East could have been different with an Israeli Minister of Peace in place. There is now a renewed call for Ministers of Peace in both Israel and Palestine by members of the Global Alliance in both countries.