Children of Israel, Children of Palestine

Laurel Holliday

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Year: 2014
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781439139806
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Israeli Jews and Palestinians appear side by side for the first time in this remarkable book to share powerful feelings and reflections on growing up in one of the world's longest and most dangerous conflicts. Here, thirty-six men and women, boys and girls, tell of their coming-of-age in a land of turmoil.
From kibbutzim in Israel and the occupied territories to Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Israeli Jews and Palestinians tell of tragedy and transcendence as they face their deepest fears and dream of a peaceful future. Listen to them as they recount stories of their brief and often violent youth.
No matter what their ethnic identity, how much and how long they have suffered, these courageous autobiographers most often reveal a deep longing for peace. Perhaps their hopes and fears are best illustrated by a parable retold by eighteen-year-old Redrose (a pseudonym):
"Two frogs got trapped in a jar of cream. They couldn't jump out of the liquid and they couldn't climb because the sides of the jar were slippery. One frog said, 'By dawn I'll be dead, ' and went to sleep. The second frog swam all night long and in the morning found herself floating on a pat of butter."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• ‘No Other Storm’ by Moshe Shamir
• ‘Thumbprint’ by Ehud Ben-Ezer
• ‘Marked by the Teeth’ by Moshe Dor
• ‘The Arak of Abu-Anton’ by Yehudit Hendel
• ‘The Dark Villages’ by Reuven Miran
• ‘Early Lessons of Separation’ by Anan Ameri
• ‘I Survived the War’ by Musa Jamil Jaffer (pseudonym)
• ‘Going to Jerusalem’ by Gunter David
• ‘A Christian Palestinian’s Story’ by Wadad Saba
• ‘Yehezkel’ by Yitzhak Bar-Yossef
• ‘Paradise on the Border’ by Yael Medini
• ‘Ten Centimeters of Dust’ by Shammai Golan
• ‘Tracings’ by Basim Abdoraad (pseudonym)
• ‘Hopes Are Hopes’ by Leah Ayalon
• ‘Tzipori’ by Reuven Miran
• ‘Marked for Destruction’ by Ibtisam S. Barakat
• ‘A Child in Rafah Camp’ by Ahmed Younis
• ‘In the Courtyard of the Children’s House of the Kibbutz’ by Shuli Dichter
• ‘A Child’s Misgivings About the War’ by Mohammad Zahaykeh
• ‘Shards’ by Tanya Gardiner-Scott
• ‘Borderland’ by Mohammad Masad
• ‘Born in Bethlehem’ by Marina N. Riadi
• ‘Childhood/Manhood’ by Omar Mahdawi
• ‘Children of a Tenth-Class God?’ by Nihaya Qawasmi
• ‘Alti Zachen’ by Victoria Kay-Feinerman
• ‘Caught in Conflict’ by Rachel Hovne
• ‘One More River to Cross’ by Nahla Mary Beier
• ‘My Mother Palestin’ by Ramzy Baroud
• ‘A Look into Memory’ by Ghareeb (pseudonym)
• ‘Healing the Wounds of Childhood’ by Ammar Abu Zayyad
• ‘Face of Peace’ by Redrose (pseudonym)
• ‘My Life on the Firing Line’ by Racheli Tal
• ‘Two Awful Weeks in March’ by Liran Zvibel
• ‘Not Again!’ by Jeffrey Klein
• Photographs
• Bibliography
• Credits
• Photo Credits
• Chronology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Copyright