My letter to the London Review of Books Regarding: Is Palestine Next? 14 July 2011

Edward Said Mural

RE: Is Palestine Next? by Adam Shatz
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n14/adam-shatz/is-palestine-next

Dear Sir,

I very much appreciated Adam Shatz's careful essay "Is Palestine Next?" In particular I was relieved to see that he did not demonize or try to dismiss the Palestinian refugees right of return. At this point in time, knowing that the Israel/Palestine conflict has been heading towards becoming a religious war with bigotry and cynicism on both sides rising, I very much believe that a fully secular two state solution ASAP is the only way to actually end the Israel/Palestine conflict.

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

NOTES

"The truth elided by both parties is that the Palestinian and Israeli identities are 20th-century phenomena that emerged in parallel and in contradiction to each other. One hundred years ago, the words “Israeli” and “Palestinian” were meaningless. This is not to say that Arabs and Jews don’t have deep histories, but both political identities are recent constructs, forged in the context of the ongoing conflict." Hussein Ibish: Two Narratives for Two Peoples

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