Amos Elon

Amos Elon (Hebrew: עמוס אילון, July 4, 1926 – May 25, 2009) was an Israeli journalist and author.

[3] Beginning in the 1950s, Elon served as a correspondent on European and American affairs for the newspaper Haaretz.

Elon was an early advocate for the creation of a Palestinian state and withdrawal from the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.

[3] In 1975 he wrote an admiring if critical biography of Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, but later grew disillusioned.

In an interview that year with Ari Shavit he stated that Zionism had "exhausted itself" and that he had come to consider it "perhaps the least successful attempt at colonialism that I can think of.