David White, a self-described agnostic from Auckland, New Zealand wrote this very fine letter, encouraging the Palestinians to "Get Real". The tone is passionate, literary and blunt but respectful. I know nothing about the writer other than what is in the letter, which seems to be circulating by e-mail.

Speaking Truth to the Powerless: An Open Letter To The People Commonly Called "Palestinians".
Greetings to any Palestinian who may be reading this. My name is David White. I am a citizen of New Zealand, a small, Western, nominally Christian country in the South Pacific Ocean. I am not Jewish, or Christian, I guess I'm vaguely agnostic.

Writing this letter is a good way for me to discuss the horrible mess in the Middle East...

Your interpretation, as far as I can tell, seems to be something like this: You have no state of your own, and you are fighting a war against those you call "Zionist oppressors" and "colonial imperialists", in order to create a Palestinian state...

The Israelis see things differently, of course. For them, it's a simple battle for survival. They offered you a state, and you attacked them instead. ...

Put bluntly, the Palestinian people are buggered. Munted. Stuffed. Rooted.(American equivalent=screwed. British equivalent: done over). It's like this: Yasser Arafat turned down the Israeli offer of a Palestinian homeland in Gaza and the West Bank. You want, or Arafat claims that you want, a Palestine "from the river to the sea;" in other words, "all or nothing"....There is one insuperable obstacle to this- Israel....

A Vast Wringing Of Hands, A Great Fluttering Of Diplomats. That has been the overall response to the disaster you have created for yourselves. You, the Palestinian Arabs, are obviously hoping for some kind of international intervention to save you. As we in New Zealand would say, "Get Real!"...

I've posted the entire wonderfully written letter here

Read it, pass it along.