I've read it now twice for two different history classes, and it didn't lose any of its power the second time around. e. Chapter Six describes the calamitous scenes of refugee life in Ramallah and Gaza in late 1948 and early 1949.

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They lived there until the war, when like almost all the families of that town, they were forced into exile by the arriving Israeli army. Bashir, like most Palestinians, believed there was only one way the land would come back to his people. A broadcast from the Voice of Cairo dared Israel to strike: "We challenge you, Eshkol, to try all your weapons.We are prepared, our sons are prepared, our army is prepared, and the entire Arab nation is prepared. m., Prime Minister Eshkol sent a message to King Hussein through the chief United Nations observer: "We shall not initiate any action whatsoever against Jordan. As I watched my son play, my mind would drift to mothers in Israel whose toddlers were no longer able to do so.

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle

Sandy Tolan, a veteran print and radio journalist who teaches international reporting at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, recently published a book, "The Lemon Tree," which examines the Mideast conflict through the story of two individuals, a Palestinian and an Israeli, with claims to the same house in the town of Ramla. Israeli soldiers took the place of Jordanian police, and the prisons began to fill with young Palestinian men. Salama must contend with bullets and bombs, military assaults, and her shifting sense of morality before she might finally breathe free. The king, according to the American assessment, would now be under great pressure to appear more militant toward Israel, especially as his kingdom grew more restive.S. over Vietnam, and that perhaps Nasser believed his forces were now strong enough to withstand an attack from Israel. The meeting between the two aged fathers was as powerfully moving as Homer's depiction in The Iliad of the aged king of Troy, mourning his slain son, weeping on the shoulders of Achilles, who has killed the son and desecrated his body. We have a Christian-Arab sister-church in Israel, so are very aware of the tremendous apartheid that has faced Arab-Israelis for so long, but I was not aware of how much upheaval there has been for Palestinians, almost every decade, since 1948 in Palestine/Israel.