He’s also a 6th degree black belt in Karate. Good for him – and wrote a book. Mind you, I agree with the sentiment generally, that Palestinians and Israeli’s need to work together for a peaceful solution and such, although the title of the video is rather off-putting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko_Peled definitely seems like a character. Strikes me as the result of coming from a fundamentalist (in this case, Zionist) background and rejecting it as a young adult and turning as far away from his father’s footsteps as possible.
Fundy Christians become New Atheist, as a teenager I’d see Roman Catholic girls become Wiccan… same type of thing. Turning away from the roots to embrace a directly oppositional opinion.
This doesn’t invalidate his opinions and such by any means, just an observation of a pattern.