Title: Read Amira Hass Instead!
Review: Agree with many reviewers here. There is something profoundly false in this book. Disagree that editing is what was needed. A deeper understanding of the Palestinian people is sorely lacking and ditto: I found the Israeli soldier's musings purely farsical. If you want to know what the Palestinians endure, read Amira Hass' beautiful "Drinking the Sea at Gaza", though it isn't fiction, it might as well be. Read Rubber Bullets by Yarom Ezrahi, or Coming Home to Jerusalem, or Avi Shlaim.. This book is using and abusing a terrible situation, not adding to its emotional truth with imagination, but detracting from that, as the non-fiction books mentioned do not. Now, this is a leap: but why a twenty year old photo? And why such a totally dismal cover, one that is discordant with text. Everything about this book, including that I bought it, bothers me. I just take the Middle East too seriously to bear this tripe. Seriously, Read AMIRA HASS; she's the Giant in this pond of writers.
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