What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?

FROM THE ORWELL PRIZE-WINNER AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST<BR><BR>A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 <BR><BR>'Palestine's greatest prose writer' Observer<BR><BR>'A valuable read. As well as talking through the history, Shehadeh is reaching out to Israelis and searching for some kind of dialogue' Armando Iannucci <BR><BR>When the state of Israel was formed in 1948, it precipitated the Nakba or 'disaster': the displacement of the Palestine nation, creating fracture-lines which continue to erupt in violent and tragic ways today.<BR><BR> In the years that followed, while the Berlin Wall crumbled and South Africa abolished apartheid, the Israeli government rejected every opportunity for reconciliation with Palestine. But Raja Shehadeh, a human rights lawyer and Palestine's greatest living writer, suggests that this does not mean the two nations cannot work together as partners on the road to peace, not genocide.<BR><BR> In graceful, devastatingly observed prose, this is a fresh perspective in a time of great need.<BR><BR>'Powerful' New Statesman<BR><BR>'A buoy in the sea of bleakness' Rachel Kushner, author of Creation Lake<BR><BR>'Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise' Colm Toibin, author of The Magician