Seven years ago, Amos Oz stopped by APN’s Washington DC office to record this video.
It was a last-moment initiative. I scrambled to prepare our clunky recording equipment, and then rushed to
meet him at the elevator. I can’t tell you how thrilled I was. I’ve read all his books – some of them
twice – and have always admired him for his literary achievements and for his dedication to peace and
security for Israel.
Out of the elevator emerged a short, modest man, warm and upbeat.
As I attached the microphone to his jacket, I told him that his book A Tale of Love
and Darkness helped me better know my mother. She grew up in the same Jerusalem neighborhood as he
did, not far from his parents’ home, and shared many of the childhood experiences Oz describes in the
book. He saw how emotional I was. He placed his warm hand on my shoulder and said: “This makes me very
happy, your relationship with your mother.”
Americans for Peace Now (APN) sends its condolences to the Oz family and to the people of Israel,
who today lost Amos Oz, a literary giant, a beacon of morality and humanity, and a founder of Israel’s peace
movement.
Known by many as Mr. Jerusalem, one of the world’s leading experts
on Jewish-Arab relations in Jerusalem, Danny Seidemann is the founder and director of 
Peace Now's director general Shaqued Morag today published an important article lambasting Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his anti-peace policies. It should be noted that the article was published in
the pro-Netanyahu daily Israel Hayom.
