The Lemon Tree

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In the light of the early evening of June 6, Bashir stood on the roof of an apartment building in Ramallah, facing south. Fathers demanded their sons seek the safety of higher education in Cairo or London; one son, a young man named Bassam Abu-Sharif, asked his father, "What is a Ph. In the aftermath of the Six Day War, Bashir took advantage of the unsettled situation to slip back into Israel to see his old house. Someone posted a comment on this site saying the Palestinians should be relocated in other Arab countries.

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When Eshkol, in a conciliatory note, wrote to President Johnson asking for his support in this "difficult hour for us," the president didn't respond.In the weeks after the occupation, Bashir began to believe that his people would go back to their homeland only through the sweat and blood of Palestinian armed struggle. On my recent flight from Tel Aviv to London, I turned the last page of The Lemon Tree, the chronicle of a Palestinian, a Jew, and how the intersection of their lives 40 years ago profoundly touched them both. The court had convened in Ramallah in the Jordanian-controlled West Bank, the territory King Abdullah had annexed to his kingdom 17 years earlier. Then, another series of thunderous booms: the sound of Ramallah's main radio transmitter going down.

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c. (RG3) The Arab-Israeli war of 1948 is known as the “War of Independence” to Israelis, and the “Nakba,” or “Catastrophe,” to Palestinians. The strike had been organized, the Israeli authorities would soon learn, by a young West Bank lawyer named Bashir Khairi. It was warm and clear but for the dark pillars of smoke rising from the direction of Jerusalem and the haze around the Mount of Olives just to the east. If you like, two people in the discussion group can role-play, reading verbatim from their conversation (especially pp.I wanted to find a way to connect these histories -- of many thousands of Jews coming to the new state of Israel after the Holocaust; of 700,000 Palestinians fleeing and being forced out of their homes in the war -- through a single place, or, better yet, through an actual thing you could touch. The Israeli capabilities, another CIA assessment declared, were enhanced because "the Arab states are hampered by a lack of cohesiveness and by friction among Arab leaders. 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. There, he will meet Dalia Eshkenazi, a young Israeli college student who was, until that moment, unaware of the history of her house and her country.