Rejecting calls to boycott Israel, Gordimer urges talks with Hamas

Ahead of her arrival from South Africa next week, Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer urged Israel and Hamas to hold a direct dialogue, "for the very survival of the peoples of Palestine and Israel."

"Hamas, despite its declaration denying the right of Israel to exist must be part of these talks, for the very survival of Palestine and Israel, for them to be at peace in full independent states within justly agreed boundaries," Gordimer said in a statement faxed to The Jerusalem Post.

Rejecting calls to boycott an international writers' conference in Jerusalem coinciding with Israel's 60th anniversary, Gordimer stressed that she was not invited by the Israeli government, but by the event's organizers.

"What such a meeting of writers is for is to assert vitally that whatever violent, terrible, bitter and urgent chasms of conflict lie between peoples, the only solution for peace and justice exist and must begin with both sides talking to one another," she said.

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