I can certainly put myself in Israel’s shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand…
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
I truly believe that writing is a continuum – so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don’t write essays as often as I should.
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn’t need that last minute research before writing?
