Abstract
Muhammed Miari, attorney and graduate of the Hebrew University School of Law, was born in the Palestinian village of al-Birwe near Akka (Acre), which was obliterated in 1948. Now a member of the eleventh Israeli Knesset as head (with General (Res.) Matityahu Peled) of the new Progressive List for Peace, Miari is also a member of the secretariat of the Committee to Defend the Land, and president of the Prisoners' Support Group which works on behalf of Palestinian security detainees in Israel and the occupied territories. Miari helped to establish the nationalist al-Ard movement which was outlawed by the Israeli authorities in the early sixties and, as a lawyer, has defended cases such as those of West Bank mayors Bassem al-Shaka'a of Nablus, Karim Khalaf of Ramallah, and Fahd Qawasmeh and Muhammed Milhem, the exiled mayors of Halhoul and al-Khalil (Hebron) respectively. Muhammed Miari was interviewed for the Journal shortly after the List's success in the July 23, 1984 elections in Israel. Elected to the Knesset with a surplus of 5,000 votes, both Miari and Peled now have a joint voice to raise in the quest for peace, according to the objectives stated in the List's platform [see Documents and Source Material, p. 209 in this issue]. Miari discussed the inception of the Progressive List for Peace and its aims with Ghassan Bishara, correspondent of al-Fajr, the English-language, Jerusalem-based Palestinian weekly.
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