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Article: Letters to the Editor
- Article from:
- The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
- Article date:
- November 1, 2009
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Free Speech vs. Despair
In the last 40 years since I began following events in the Middle East (many of those years shared with the Washington Report) I have never felt so much despair as I do now. The "two-state" solution is beyond realization. There can be only a one-state nation-either democratic, with equal rights to all its citizens or, as I tremble to say, the whole of Palestine for Jewish people only, with all the ethnic cleansing implied in such a concept.
I believe you may indeed need to be publishing 27 years from now, for no just solution is in sight. I have recently watched Alan Hart and Ilan Pappe on YouTube at the 60th anniversary of the Nakba. A most interesting discussion on ...