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What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? Paperback – 11 June 2024
by Raja Shehadeh (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as partners on the road to peace instead of genocide.
Since the formation of the state of Israel in 1948, the Nakba (or 'disaster' as the Palestinians call it), there have been many opportunities to move towards peace and equality between Palestine and Israel - after the Six-Day War in 1967, the Oslo Agreement and even the 7 October 2023 War.
Each opportunity has been rejected by Israel, which is why life is unbearable in the West Bank now and there is genocide in Gaza. This book explores what went wrong again and again, and why. And how it could still be different.
It is human nature to feel prejudice. But in this haunting meditation on Palestine and Israel, Shehadeh suggests that this does not mean the two nations cannot live together to their mutual benefit and co-existence.
In graceful, devastatingly observed prose, this is a fresh reflection on the conflict in a time of great need.
128 pages
11 June 2024
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
It is human nature to feel prejudice. But in this haunting meditation on Palestine and Israel, Shehadeh suggests that this does not mean the two nations cannot live together to their mutual benefit and co-existence.
In graceful, devastatingly observed prose, this is a fresh reflection on the conflict in a time of great need.
128 pages
11 June 2024
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
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'In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, his self-questioning and insistence on focusing on the experience of the individual within the storms of nationalist myth and hubris, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi' - New York Times
'Luminously clear-sighted ... By turns lyrical, witty and shrewd, Shehadeh is an excellent companion' - Prospect
'Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise' - Colm Toibin
'A buoy in a sea of bleakness' - Rachel Kushner
'[Shehadeh is] Palestine's greatest prose writer' - Observer
About the Author
Raja Shehadeh is Palestine's leading writer. He is also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq. Shehadeh is the author of several acclaimed books published by Profile, including the Orwell Prize-winning Palestinian Walks.
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Publisher : Profile Trade; Main edition (11 June 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 180522347X
ISBN-13 : 978-1805223474
Dimensions : 11 x 1.2 x 17.6 cmBest Sellers Rank: 47,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)82 in Human Rights Law
84 in Middle Eastern Politics
100 in Civil Rights & Liberties (Books)Customer Reviews:
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Fiona
5.0 out of 5 stars HeartbreakingReviewed in Australia on 9 June 2024
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Succinct and honest exposure to the inhumanities being wreaked on the Palestinian people. I didn’t really understand what this war was about until I read this. I’m utterly horrified that the world has turned the other way as this injustice has unfolded.
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Theseus
5.0 out of 5 stars There but for the grace of GodReviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 June 2024
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I found this book very well written, & think it should be read by everyone in these difficult times, including the Israeli government.
I read of the I.D.F. medic who came to administer aid to someone injured in a suicide bombing, to find that was the suicide bomber, who took his rifle & shot the man dead: I can imagine myself doing the same thing in similar circumstances, but do not think that would have been just & think it was only right that he was tried in an Israeli court for his actions.
But I also see the Arabs living in the Gaza Strip who are kicked out of their homes & sent off to live in poorer & poorer conditions; I see the eyes of the children & think this is how you create fanatical terrorists - what would I be like if I had suffered as they have? Might I too be prepared to do terrible things?
In the words of the John Donne:
Send not to know for whom the bell rolls
It rolls for thee.
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JNew
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BRIEF, BUT INFORMATIVE
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 June 2024
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Easy to digest, though some extended detail required in places. Issues re skewed Israeli narratives was particular well covered here.
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Easy to digest, though some extended detail required in places. Issues re skewed Israeli narratives was particular well covered here.
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