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Title: Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine by Raja Shehadeh, Raja Shehadah, Anthony Lewis ISBN: 0-14-200293-3 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Courageous Man
Comment: Shehadeh's book is perhaps the only one to lay out the multi-faceted nature of the Israeli-Palestinian-Arab conflict. Or, as Shehadeh, puts it so eloquently a conflict between Palestinians, Israelis, the "inside" and the "outside".
For me, the most touching moment of the book came when the young Shehadeh heard the PLO radio denounce his father for daring to work for a two-state solution. "A.S.," it declared, "you are a traitor, a despicable collaborator. You want to surrender and sell your birthright. We know how to deal with the likes of you. A. S. you shall pay for your treason. We shall eliminate you. Silence you forever. Traitor. Collaborator. Quisling."
The PLO quite simply could not afford to lose the funding it received from the surrounding Arab states to create a peaceful future for Israelis and Palestinians and also to ensure that Israel would no longer "be the subject of fiery speeches in which the people's rage could be articulated and released-they would be distracted from dealing with all that was wrong at home."
The PLO simply could not afford peace because it wasn't being paid to bring about either peace or an independent Palestinian State; it was being paid to keep the Palestinians miserable and angry. To ensure that the Palestinian plight remained a distraction for the Arabs earning for democracy.
Shehadeh's father dared to stand up to the PLO and its backers. He was murdered.
And now, his son is carrying on his father's work.
It is our job to make sure that Raja's life lasts longer than his father's.
Rating: 5
Summary: Required Reading
Comment: This book should be considered required reading for anyone seeking to understand the current Palestinian - Israeli conflict. Shehadeh provides a very personal view of the reality of growing up in the occupied West Bank. Best of all, he pulls no punches - against Israel or his fellow Palestinians.
Rating: 4
Summary: Strangers in the House
Comment: A former political activist in the occupied territories looks back on his youthful struggle to come to terms with his father, as well as with an idealized Palestinian past and an unrealized Palestinian future. Shehadeh, a lawyer and a writer who now lives quietly in the West Bank town of Ramallah, founded the internationally respected human rights organization Al Haq, which mounted legal challenges to Israeli settlements on the West Bank and exposed the treatment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. Raja's father, Aziz Shehadeh, was also a prominent lawyer and a political activist. A refugee from Jaffa following the 1948 conflict, Aziz came to believe that recognizing Israel was the only way to maintain a Palestinian nation. He was condemned by Arab nationalists and also drew fire when he became the defense attorney for those accused of assassinating King Abdullah of Jordan. He was murdered in 1985, not for his political beliefs but probably over a minor legal wrangle. All this lays the foundation for Raja's reflections on his childhood, during which family members incessantly recalled their former comforts and refused to confront the reality of the Israeli takeover. Chapters about Raja's education in London and India reveal the emotional conflict between father and son, as well as Raja's efforts to find a role for himself in the political struggle between Palestinians and Israelis. Partly as a result of his disillusionment with the Israeli investigation of his father's murder, he affiliated with the first intifada and became a legal advisor to the Palestinians at the Madrid peace conference in 1991. He left "in despair a year after they began." Shehadeh also describes eloquently the devastation of the biblical hills surrounding his home as Israeli bulldozers make room for settlements. A memoir both political and personal, offering a human and humane perspective on one Palestinian's life.
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Title: When the Birds Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Siege by Raja Shehadeh ISBN: 1586420690 Publisher: Steerforth Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti, Edward W. Said, Ahdaf Soueif ISBN: 1400032660 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story by Ghada Karmi ISBN: 1859846947 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege by Amira Hass, Elana Wesley, Maxine Kaufman Lacusta, Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta ISBN: 0805057404 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Palestine by Joe Sacco, Edward Said ISBN: 156097432X Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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