Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

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Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning writer of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eyes.

I call you “neighbor” because I don’t know your name, or anything personal about you. Given our circumstances, “neighbor” might be too casual a word to describe our relationship. We are intruders into each other’s dream, violators of one another’s sense of home. We are incarnations of one another’s worst historical nightmares. Neighbors?

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is one Israeli’s powerful attempt to succeed in beyond the wall that separates Israelis and Palestinians and into the hearts of “the enemy.” In a series of letters, Yossi Klein Halevi explains what motivated him to leave his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to take part in the drama of the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he’s committed to see succeed as a morally responsible, democratic state in the Middle East.

This is the first attempt by an Israeli writer to directly address his Palestinian neighbors and describe how the conflict appears through Israeli eyes. Halevi untangles the ideological and emotional knot that has defined the conflict for nearly a century. In lyrical, evocative language, he unravels the complex strands of faith, pride, anger and anguish he feels as a Jew living in Israel, the usage of history and personal experience as his guide.

Halevi’s letters speak not only to his Palestinian neighbor, but to all concerned global citizens, helping us have in mind the painful choices confronting Israelis and Palestinians so they can in the end help decide the fate of the region.

 

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