Ghada Karmi

Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian academic.

In Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country … The Four Great Powers are committed to Zionism. And Zionism, be it right or wrong … is of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.

Arthur Balfour, 1919

In​ 2005 I was working for the...

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