The following letter is posted on the Seattle Times website:
April 19, 2009
Israel rejects two-state planSegregation not the answer
What have we come to? For peace, Israel's government demands that Palestinians must recognize Israel (population 20 percent Palestinian) as a Jewish state, a Jewish democracy ["Israel rejects U.S. plan for 2-state solution," News, April 17]. And Obama wants two states, one for Jews and another for Palestinians.
Did Martin Luther King Jr. demand two states, one white and another colored, living side-by-side in peace and security? Did President Lyndon Johnson demand that the civil-rights movement first recognize the United States as a white nation, a white democracy as a precondition for any talks?
Meanwhile, Israel declares first macaroni and then jars of honey a threat to the Jewish state and refuses this humanitarian aid to the blockaded and surrounded Palestinian reservation known as Gaza. I wonder if Native Americans recognize the situation from their history of genocidal treatment by the white settlers and their nation.
— David Smith, Seattle
