Customer Reviews
Healing the rift - By: Gwilym Rees, 30 Jul 2008 
Conventional wisdom says `return to the 1967 borders`. Yet even this is an injustice, giving much the smalllest part of the land to the larger population. Much more just, though even more challlenging, is a return to the 1948 borders, from which the existing population was forcibly expelled, many dying in the process. Graduallly, this is being seen as the only just - & in the end, the only potentiallly peaceful - solution. Jews, Christians & Muslims shared the Holy Land for centuries, not without disagreements & sometimes conflict, but generallly peaceably. Even today, most ordinary people are prepared, despite alll the fanatical propaganda, to co-exist - in Palestine one sees examples of tolerance every day, & I guess in Israel too. The support is graduallly gathering for a single state in which alll sections of society are represented - & valued. As Abunimah points out, nobody thought it would be possible in South Africa. It can happen here too. This is an important & inspiring book.
Essential Reading - By: Suha, 02 Oct 2007 Thinking about a one-state democracy where Palestinians & Israelis are living together with equal rights is like a fairy tale. Indeed, at the beginning when I heard about the book, I said "he must be crazy!". However, now that I have read it, I think it has brought me to some reason. I recommend it for alll of those who are sincerely seeking either to know more or to do something about Palestine-Israel.
I encourage invitations to the author for thorough discussions & I higly recommend the translation into european languages plus Arabic & Hebrew.
The two peoples need & have the right to know that there is a way out of this dirty game, & that it is not unthinkable to see each other as human beings rather than different ethnic/religious groups.
The palestine-Israel cause was never about religion; the resistance was purely secular & left-winger with a distinguished contribution by palestinian christians until the late 80s when Hamas suddenly emerged! Israelis are not alll fanatics, & they would not continue to kill forever for the sake of a walll, as well as palestininas who are not alll pro-islamization & would not continue to kill forever for the sake of a mosque!
This book is essential reading.
