Cry Palestine: Inside The West Bank

by Said K Aburish

Overview

Cry Palestine provides a unique perspective, a glimpse into the world behind the intifada from both the Palestinian and Israeli points of view. Said K. Aburish was born in the West Bank village of Bethany and lived there until he was fifteen. He has a large number of relatives and friends who still live on the West Bank, many of whom,

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429720017
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/13/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	226
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Said K. Aburish was born in the West Bank in 1935. He attended university in the United States and subsequently worked as a consultant to several Arab governments and as Middle East correspondent for Radio Free Europe and the Daily Mail. He is now a journalist and author and has written for, among others, the Independent, the Washington Post, and Liberation. His books include Pay-Off: Wheeling and Dealing in the Arab World, The St. George Hotel Bar (published in paperback as Beirut Spy), and Children of Bethany. He lives in London.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- The Brutal Reality -- A Week in the Life of the West Bank -- The Language of Fear, Hate, Violence and Death -- The Unknown -- Rampant Blind Injustice -- Indirect Terror -- Self-Appraisal -- Treason -- The Small Landowner's Story -- As God is My Witness -- Profile in Courage - Makram Sa'ad -- People on the Other Side -- Profiles in Courage - Lea Tzemel -- A Confusing Time -- Conversations with People on the Other Side -- Palestinians - the Worst and the Best -- A Paranoid Culture -- Children of the Intifada -- The PLO and the People -- There is a Palestinian State -- Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

Initially, this volume by a noted Arab journalist and author ( Children of Bethany: The Story of a Palestinian Family , Indiana Univ. Pr., 1989) covers familiar ground, describing widespread engagement in the intifada and brutal Israeli repression. But Aburish has a fresh perspective: he indicts the cynicism and alienation of Palestinian ``paranoid culture,'' which denies responsibility for past failures or future change, but sees hope in the younger generation, which has resisted Israeli rule and created a new civic culture he believes could be the basis for a viable Palestinian state. Peaceful coexistence between such a state and Israel is possible, Aburish argues, if both sides stop posturing and concentrate on their common interest in peace. His thoughtful analysis is a useful addition to the growing library on evolving Middle Eastern realities.-- Elizabeth R. Hayford, Associated Colls. of the Midwest, Chicago

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