Inside Israel: The Faiths, the People, and the Modern Conflicts of the World's Holiest Land - Softcover

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9781569245569: Inside Israel: The Faiths, the People, and the Modern Conflicts of the World's Holiest Land

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ISBN 10: 1569245568 ISBN 13: 9781569245569

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2002

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to crescendo, bringing with it the worst violence in the Middle East in decades. Now Inside Israel helps make sense of the region's longstanding travails, detailing the past, present, and future of a place that has been holy to Jews, Christians, and Arabs for thousands of years. Organized into three sections—the History, a Day in the Life, and the Peace Process—the collection includes nonfiction pieces by a distinguished roster of writers, historians, journalists, and scholars. David Grossman offers a portrait of Palestinians on the West Bank, Saul Bellow captures the "length and depth" of Jerusalem's history while Robert Stone considers the capital's future, and Hendrik Hertzberg analyzes the current conflict and how the U.S. needs to be involved in a peaceful solution. Other writings include contributions by David Remnick, Karen Armstrong, David Grossman, Saul Bellow, Robert Kaplan, Robert Stone, David Shipler, Deborah Sontag, Anthony Lewis, and many others. The state of this holy, contested land makes this is an essential book for everyone seeking new levels of understanding about the place whose fate, now more than ever, impacts the entire world.

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"In among these pages, as among the surprising labyrinths of Jerusalem, alleyways lead from one insight into another so fluidly that the traveler finally feels the familiarity of old courtyards newly seen, ancient yearnings freshly found. Israel, worn by centuries and revived each morning, still strives to exist—and to coexist alongside the Palestinian people, who still campaign for the right to be.

"From Saul Bellow in 1976 to P.J. O’Rourke a quarter century later, the excerpts and essays here illuminate the sad durability of the themes of conflict. They emerge like bedrock once the surface soil of negotiable disputes is stripped away. Most of them are anchored in history, some are magnified by faith, and all draw their furious passions from the latest outrage. Every attack is revenge, every cause an effect, and no untangling is possible unless the underlying patterns are seen. That is the accomplishment of this collection of writings, which have a woeful timelessness as if little has been revised by all the years of peacemaking and war making."

–From the Introduction by David K. Shipler

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"[An] eminently readable collection." -- The Jerusalem Post

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