Israel/Palestine

Heineken Helen

There's a book called The Lemon Tree which I'd recommend to any of you on either side of the conflict... kinda helps get a better perspective on where EVERYONE's coming from!

http://www.amazon.com/Lemon-Tree-Arab-Heart-Middle/dp/1582343438

fuck

I have a signed copy of this book... I think the author even wrote a personal message to my dad in it.

I've yet to read it, but maybe I'll get it off the shelf now.

Heineken Helen

_FiveAgainstOne_ wrote:

I have a signed copy of this book... I think the author even wrote a personal message to my dad in it.

I've yet to read it, but maybe I'll get it off the shelf now.

that's really cool.

I have to say, it got too much into history/names/dates for my liking rather than the story between the two people... but I thought some of you might like that . It goes through 60 years of the conflict and shows from both sides perspective. It's quite thought provoking really.

Clarice

Heineken Helen wrote:

There's a book called The Lemon Tree which I'd recommend to any of you on either side of the conflict... kinda helps get a better perspective on where EVERYONE's coming from!

http://www.amazon.com/Lemon-Tree-Arab-Heart-Middle/dp/1582343438

Tks for sharing..i will looking for the portuguese edition. If have one...

Heineken Helen

Clara Clareando wrote:

Tks for sharing..i will looking for the portuguese edition. If have one...

thanks it helps see a more personal side of things.

JordyWordy

Nice, havnt seen this before, thanks!

sweetpotato

Actually, an older and probably better known book on this subject is one I've mentioned before: Arab and Jew- Wounded Spirits In A Promised Land. It was originally published in the late 80's, and has since been revised. It covers both sides VERY well. I think he even won a Pulitzer for it.

http://www.amazon.com/Arab-Jew-Wounded-Spirits-Promised/dp/0142002291/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212170119&sr=1-1

Publisher's Weekly said this about it:

"The Jew, in the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. There is remarkable symmetry in these images, as Shipler points out in this hefty mixture of reportage, personal histories, interviews and scholarship. An act of courage and clarity, the book is an important contribution to the literature on the Middle East. The New York Times correspondent shows how Israeli Jews deny the reality that Palestinian Arabs are victims of forcible displacement and expulsion from what was once their homeland; he describes how a "synthetic Israeli history'' is taught to Jewish schoolchildren, while Palestinian boys and girls in the refugee camps are taught militant rhetoric and hatred. Shipler explores the corrosive effects of terrorism by both sides, the zeal of Islamic fundamentalists, as well as that of Israeli ultraconservatives."

Heineken Helen

sweetpotato wrote:

Actually, an older and probably better known book on this subject is one I've mentioned before: Arab and Jew- Wounded Spirits In A Promised Land. It was originally published in the late 80's, and has since been revised. It covers both sides VERY well. I think he even won a Pulitzer for it.

http://www.amazon.com/Arab-Jew-Wounded-Spirits-Promised/dp/0142002291/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1212170119&sr=1-1

Publisher's Weekly said this about it:

"The Jew, in the Arab stereotype, is a brutal, violent coward; the Arab, to the prejudiced Jew, is a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. There is remarkable symmetry in these images, as Shipler points out in this hefty mixture of reportage, personal histories, interviews and scholarship. An act of courage and clarity, the book is an important contribution to the literature on the Middle East. The New York Times correspondent shows how Israeli Jews deny the reality that Palestinian Arabs are victims of forcible displacement and expulsion from what was once their homeland; he describes how a "synthetic Israeli history'' is taught to Jewish schoolchildren, while Palestinian boys and girls in the refugee camps are taught militant rhetoric and hatred. Shipler explores the corrosive effects of terrorism by both sides, the zeal of Islamic fundamentalists, as well as that of Israeli ultraconservatives."

Thanks for that. It might be more interesting to those who don't want the novel side of things. The one I suggested is a novel but it's still a true story and very very well researched. Definitely education has a lot to do with it.