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Between river and sea : encounters in Israel and Palestine / Dervla Murphy.
LIBRA DS107.5 M87 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Dervla, 1931-2022, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murphy, Dervla, 1931-2022--Travel--Israel.
- Murphy, Dervla.
- Murphy, Dervla, 1931-2022--Travel--West Bank.
- Murphy, Dervla, 1931-.
- Travel.
- Israel--Description and travel.
- Israel.
- West Bank--Description and travel.
- West Bank.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 442 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Eland, 2015.
- Summary:
- None of Dervla Murphy's journeys have been easy, but with Between River and Sea she has kept her most difficult destination till last. In cramped Haifa high-rises, in homes in the settlements and in a refugee camp on the West Bank, Dervla Murphy talks with whomever she meets. She tries to understand the attitudes of both Palestinians and Jewish Israelis with her customary curiosity, her acute ear and mind, her empathy and her moral seriousness. While she keeps an open mind, her sympathies are clearly with the Palestinians, remorselessly dispossessed of, and cut off from, their lands and frustrated and humiliated on a daily basis. Clinging to hope, she comes to believe that despite its difficulties the only viable future lies in a single democratic state of Israel-Palestine, based on one person, one vote - the One-State Solution. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1
- 1 Mixed Company in Jaffa and Tel Aviv 1
- 2 On a Kibbutz in the Negev 23
- 3 A View from Jerusalem 37
- 4 Odd Laws in a Divided City 49
- Map 62
- 5 From Ancient Acre to Newish Ashkelon 66
- 6 The Crater of Makhtesh Ramon 84
- 7 Finding Balata 99
- Part 2
- 8 The Friendliness of Nablus 111
- 9 Surrounded by Settlements 133
- 10 The Griefs of Occupation 148
- 11 Bethlehem Besieged 158
- 12 Too Many Prisoners 172
- 13 Ramallah: A Substitute Capital 191
- 14 A Minor Injury 207
- 15 A Malevolent Barrier 217
- 16 Preparing to Move on 236
- 17 Arrival in Hebron 244
- 18 The Two Faces of Purim 267
- 19 INto the Hebron Hills 287
- 20 What Goes on in the Jordan Valley? 306
- 21 Here and There in Jerusalem 331
- Part 3
- 22 Impressions of Yad Vashem 355
- 23 Polite Settlers and Traumatised Conscripts 363
- 24 The Complexities of Safed 382
- 25 Harrowed Again by the Barrier 398.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781780600703
- 1780600704
- OCLC:
- 941069015
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