Michael Letwin, SocialistWorker.org, 27 May 2009
EAMONN MCCANN is right that “[t]he birth of Israel on May 14 in 1948 was a catastrophe for the Palestinians” (“The catastrophe that lives on”). He is also right in describing the “two-state” solution as undemocratic.
However, he is mistaken in calling Israeli writer Uri Avnery a supporter of “a single secular state in historical Palestine in which all the present inhabitants of the territory and the Palestinian diaspora can live as equals,” and “an indefatigable activist for justice for the Palestinians, a symbol of hope for the future, if there is one.”