The late Dervla Murphy (a travel writer who started her career in her thirties (after caring for her parents for most of her youth) by transiting Europe in the dreadful winter of 1963, then crossing Afghanistan, all on a sturdy steel bicycle, ending up working in a refugee camp for Tibetan children) spoke to a Daily Telegraph journalist about Gaza, West Bank and Israel:

“In all the countries I’ve visited,” she told me, “that is the only one where I felt it was my actual duty as a writer not to be neutral. Not to play this game of… we must look at this, look at that. We must only look at the fact that the Palestinians are treated utterly outrageously.” But each side, she says, must relinquish a dream in return for peace: the one-state solution is the only answer. “The Palestinians have to give up any notion of having their own separate, independent state, just as the Israelis have to give up having their Jewish-only state… In a sense that’s a good beginning: they both have to give up. But I don’t think that’s going to happen for a generation or two.”