Haidar Eid

The block­ade on Gaza is a stain on hu­man his­to­ry.

Your act of sol­i­dar­i­ty gave us some true hope, and we are thank­ful for it.

A re­cent sur­vey shows that even West­ern and Is­raeli pun­dits know two states in Pales­tine are im­pos­si­ble.

The uni­ty which Pales­tini­ans demon­strat­ed in the past few weeks marks the rise of a new na­tion­al con­scious­ness.

To­day’s as­sault on Gaza may be Pales­tine’s Sharpeville mas­sacre. It may well trig­ger the down­fall of Is­raeli apartheid.

The Is­raeli NGO’s ac­knowl­edge­ment of Is­rael’s apartheid is just a small step in the right di­rec­tion.

It is time for the de-Osloi­sa­tion of the Pales­tin­ian strug­gle.

The Pales­tin­ian peo­ple need to break free of the re­al­i­ty that var­i­ous ‘ac­cords’ have im­posed on them.

What Ed­ward Said pre­dict­ed in the 1990s came to be. The PLO’s two-state project has failed.

We need to move away from the idea of a two-state so­lu­tion and em­brace the vi­sion of one sec­u­lar, de­mo­c­ra­t­ic state.