[The documentary film] Roadmap to Apartheid ends with the words of South African poet, Don Mattera, who optimistically declares when discussing the dream of free and equal society in historic Palestine, “It is possible. It is possible.” This made me think, as the pictures of maps of the extent of Israeli settlements in the West Bank made it clear to me, how difficult it would be to achieve a two-state solution. This is the basis of the only plans that are being discussed at the moment, the “roadmap” of the Middle East Quartet (the US, UN, European Union and Russia) and the Arab peace plan. To a South African the two-state solution can’t help sounding like apartheid. Perhaps it takes a poet to convince us that we need to look to our common humanity to find the solution. The working together of ordinary Palestinians and Israelis in search of peace inspires hope. (Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge)
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