About this title: This exquisitely written book records a sensitive Palestinian writer's love for the landscape of his country. It reflects not only the intense beauty of that landscape, but also some of the terrible dangers that threaten it and its occupants--Rashid Khalidi, author "The Iron Cage."
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Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2008-06-03
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Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Trade paperback
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Date Published: 2008
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Date Published: 2008-06-03
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Date Published: 2008
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"By recalling the walks he's taken and been prevented from taking in the hills around Ramallah, Raja Shehadeh provides a unique perspective on the fortunes of Palestine and the meaning of Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Shehadeh is an uncompromising nationalist - much of the book deals with his disgust with the PLO, an organization he believes betrayed the Palestinian cause in the Oslo accords and which is far too concerned with the trappings of power rather than the health and well-being of ordinary people. The people of Jewish faith who figure in the book are all government officials, members of the armed forces, or settlers - and unsurprisingly (as these are the people of Jewish faith with whom he has day-to-day contact) his perspective on Israel is therefore wholly negative and wholly rejectionist. Yet viewed from his position, standing on the hillsides around Ramallah, watching them be destroyed by the building of roads and the Wall and settlements that cut through private Palestinian land, it's hard to do anything but sympathize with his sense of betrayal and outrage.
As the most uncompromising articulation of Palestinian nationalism I've yet read, this was immensely valuable - discomfiting, troubling, heart-breaking in places, and deeply thought-provoking. As a text to address where things go next, and how to bring peace to the region, it has almost nothing to say - perhaps because Shehadeh himself is so disillusioned, and so convinced that another 1948 expulsion is on the cards. It's deeply telling that the book ends with a moment of peace between he and a settler, sitting companionably together in Ramallah's hills - but doing so only because they are sharing a smoke of hashish laced with opiates. This, he suggests, is the only peace that can be had."
"If you like walking, you will sympathise with the author as he visits the countryside he knows around Ramallah and finds that it is being inexorably changed and eroded by Jewish settlements. What comes across is the author's sadness and frustration as - despite being a lawyer trying to protect Palestinian lands rights - the country he loves disappears and the spaces available to him become ever smaller and more threatening."
"I have such mixed emotions about this book. I was hoping that, after reading it, I would better understand the Palestinian side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I do...a little...but not enough. The book wandered all over the place. I never knew when each walk was taking place or where. Detailed maps would have very helpful (There were two maps but they were insufficient). The author would name someone walking with him, tell us a little about him or her, then all of a sudden, there was another character there who was not on the walk with him and they were in another location! I thought, What is going on here? Where am I? Who am I with? It felt like trying to follow the stream-of-consciousness thoughts of a person with ADHD. The author obviously feels bitterness towards Israel for taking so much of the Palestinians' land. But at times he came off as childish--as when mentioning a Jewish man's "prominent" nose (enough already of that cliche). I wanted to sympathize with him but I lacked the historical perspective to understand how they ended up in the situation they're in. The author came across as a whiny man who accepted no blame for his people's predicament and who had no sympathy for what had happened to the Jews. I'm glad I finished this--it's probably good to read a biased interpretation of the conflict. But if I want to understand it in a more neutral way (if it can even be understood in a neutral way), I'll have to find another book."
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