The Wound of Dispossession: Telling the Palestinian Story

Thank you for KATHLEEN

The book discusses the Palestitian problem from a Palestinian point of view. Even discounting some of it as too anti-Israeli, there's no doubt that the Zionist movement and later Israel dispossessed the Palestinians of their land. Israel continues a policy of denying Palestitians basic freedoms. We go to war to bring freedom to the Iraqis, yet we support Israeli policies that retrict the freedom of the Palestinians. Is there no oil in the West Bank perhaps?

I imagine that most Americans, asked for a modifying noun for "Palestinian", would immediately answer, "terrorist". We wouldn't necessarily think, Palestinian housewife, Palestinian poet or publisher, Palestinian professor, Palestinian student, etc. And certainly I hadn't been aware of the Palestinian-American community before I read this book. Ms Christison interviews over a hundred Palestinian Americans of varying ages and backgrounds, and, as I read, I grew more and more impressed, both by the strength of family and community the interviewees displayed, and by their thoughtful, nuanced attitudes towards Palestine and Israel. Please read this book! It is quite literally an eye opener. <P...