An Answer To Uri Avnery
NOVANEWS
By Ilan Pappe
Electronic Intifada
The following is Ilan Pappe's response to Uri Avnery's essay "Bed of Sodom"
http://zope.gushshalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1177227796/
Uri Avnery accuses the supporters of the one-state solution of forcefully imposing the facts onto the "Bed of Sodom". He seems to regard these people at best as daydreamers who do not understand the political reality around them and are stuck in a perpetual state of wishful thinking. We are all veteran comrades in the Israeli Left and therefore it is quite possible that in our moments of despair we fall into the trap of hallucinating and even fantasizing while ignoring the unpleasant reality around us.
And therefore the metaphor of the Bed of Sodom may even be fitting for lashing out at those who are in...