{"id":8487,"date":"2009-05-27T11:34:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2009-05-27T11:34:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:34:42","slug":"michael-letwin-an-undemocratic-stance-on-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8487","title":{"rendered":"Michael Letwin: An undemocratic stance on Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Letwin, SocialistWorker.org, <a href=\"http:\/\/socialistworker.org\/2009\/05\/27\/undemocratic-stance-on-palestine\">27 May 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EAMONN MCCANN is right that &#8220;[t]he birth of Israel on May 14 in 1948 was a catastrophe for the Palestinians&#8221; (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/socialistworker.org\/2009\/05\/18\/catastrophe-that-lives-on\">The catastrophe that lives on<\/a>\u201d). He is also right in describing the &#8220;two-state&#8221; solution as undemocratic.<\/p>\n<p>However, he is mistaken in calling Israeli writer Uri Avnery a supporter of &#8220;a single secular state in historical Palestine in which all the present inhabitants of the territory and the Palestinian diaspora can live as equals,&#8221; and &#8220;an indefatigable activist for justice for the Palestinians, a symbol of hope for the future, if there is one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/socialistworker.org\/2009\/05\/27\/undemocratic-stance-on-palestine\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Letwin, SocialistWorker.org, 27 May 2009 EAMONN MCCANN is right that &#8220;[t]he birth of Israel on May 14 in 1948 was a catastrophe for the Palestinians&#8221; (\u201cThe catastrophe that lives on\u201d). He is also right in describing the &#8220;two-state&#8221; solution &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8487\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2cT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8492,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/8492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}