Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
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Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 6 Dec |Learn more

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

About this book

New York Times bestseller

"A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal

Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes.

I call you "neighbor" because I don’t know your name, or anything personal about you. Given our circumstances, "neighbor" might be too casual a word to describe our relationship. We are intruders into each other’s dream, violators of each other’s sense of home. We are incarnations of each other’s worst historical nightmares. Neighbors?

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is one Israeli’s powerful attempt to reach beyond the wall that separates Israelis and Palestinians and into the hearts of "the enemy." In a series of letters, Yossi Klein Halevi explains what motivated him to leave his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to participate in the drama of the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he is committed to see succeed as a morally responsible, democratic state in the Middle East.

This is the first attempt by an Israeli author to directly address his Palestinian neighbors and describe how the conflict appears through Israeli eyes. Halevi untangles the ideological and emotional knot that has defined the conflict for nearly a century. In lyrical, evocative language, he unravels the complex strands of faith, pride, anger and anguish he feels as a Jew living in Israel, using history and personal experience as his guide.

Halevi’s letters speak not only to his Palestinian neighbor, but to all concerned global citizens, helping us understand the painful choices confronting Israelis and Palestinians that will ultimately help determine the fate of the region.

 

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Information

Publisher
Harper
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780062844910
eBook ISBN
9780062844934

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. A Note to the Reader
  4. Letter 1: The Wall between Us
  5. Letter 2: Need and Longing
  6. Letter 3: Fate and Destiny
  7. Letter 4: Narrative and Presence
  8. Letter 5: Six Days and Fifty Years
  9. Letter 6: The Partition of Justice
  10. Letter 7: Isaac and Ishmael
  11. Letter 8: The Israeli Paradox
  12. Letter 9: Victims and Survivors
  13. Letter 10: A Booth at the Edge of the Desert
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. About the Author
  16. Also by Yossi Klein Halevi
  17. Copyright
  18. About the Publisher