The Lemon Tree

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How were these departures, in the things that they carried and the things that they left behind, similar? We have seen a number of deeply troubling posts on social media that are antisemitic, anti-Israel, and/or contain misinformation or disinformation. The mother of one of my schoolmates had lived in Anne Frank’s neighborhood, and got out of Amsterdam in a harrowing journey, just in time. Perhaps most shocking of all was that East Jerusalem, and the Old City with its holy sites, was now in the hands of the Israelis.

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Rostow believed the Israelis, in attacking Jordan rather than Soviet-backed Syria, which was supporting the Palestinian guerrilla factions, had struck at the wrong target.At times Dalia thought she should listen to her Western friends who insisted that the taunting voice from Cairo represented bravado and "Oriental exaggeration. After all, the broadcast intoned, some of those vessels would inevitably be transporting weapons to be used against Arabs in any coming conflict. m., Jordanian forces began firing long-range artillery toward Israeli suburbs near Tel Aviv and at an airfield at Ramat David. I felt this way reading Anil's Ghost, a novel which led me stumbling into a 25-year Sri Lankan civil war I had never heard of.

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So I am hoping that others will read The Lemon Tree, and will share their response to it, and maybe together, we can figure out what it means for us to love with eyes wide open.

Bashir was now 25 and a recent graduate of Cairo University Law School, specializing in labor matters. Bashir's parents built the house with their own hands, a testament to their hard work, and they lived there for years, running the local cinema for work. Across the country, Israelis were mobilizing: Schools were turned into shelters as citizens and soldiers dug trenches, stepped up blood drives, prepared hospital beds, made plans to send their children to Europe, and dug ten thousand graves. The lives of both Dalia Eshkenazi and Bashir Khairi, their families, the relationships between them along with the events of the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict are so compelling they can’t help but touch the readers’ very souls. The great paradox of the occupation was that suddenly historic Palestine was easier to reach than at any time since 1948.