Myth of Arrival

Whenever any writer or group of writers proves me wrong and attempts to fight unjust causes I must stand up and take note. I found this on Poets & Writers, Inc.:

Eighteen writers, including three who have won the Nobel Prize, recently signed a letter to the editor published in several newspapers around the world that condemns Israel’s actions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The letter, which was published in the Independent (England), Le Monde (France), El País (Spain), and La República (Peru), describes Israel's position as an "illegal military occupation of the West Bank" and criticizes "the systematic appropriation of [Palestinian] natural resources.”

The list of writers who signed the letter includes poets Martín Espada, Carolyn Forché, and Jessica Hagedorn; fiction writers Chris Abani, Russell Banks, Arundhati Roy, and Gore Vidal, and Nobel Prize-winning fiction writers Toni Morrison and José Saramago.

To read the full text of the letter, visit the Nation.

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