Drinking the Sea at Gaza
Drinking the Sea at Gaza

Author: Amira Hass

Publisher: Metropolitan Books

Published: 2014-11-04

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1466884533

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In 1993, Amira Aass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story - and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in Gaza's gutted streets and destitute refugee camps. Drinking the Sea at Gaza maps the zones of ordinary Palestinian life. From her friends, Hass learns the secrets of slipping across sealed borders and stealing through night streets emptied by curfews. She shares Gaza's early euphoria over the peace process and its subsequent despair as hope gives way to unrelenting hardship. But even as Hass charts the griefs and humiliations of the Palestinians, she offers a remarkable portrait of a people not brutalized but eloquent, spiritually resilient, bleakly funny, and morally courageous. Full of testimonies and stories, facts and impressions, Drinking the Sea at Gaza makes an urgent claim on our humanity. Beautiful, haunting, and profound, it will stand with the great works of wartime reportage, from Michael Herr's Dispatches to Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart.

Night in Gaza
Night in Gaza

Author: Mads Gilbert

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780993153365

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In the summer of 2014, Gaza was attacked by Israel for the fourth time since 2006. This attack lasted 51 days. Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor, had worked at al Shifa Hospital during each previous conflict, and in July 2014 he went back there. While he was helping the wounded, he kept a camera in the pocket of his green operating scrubs. In this book, he tells the story in words and images of the 15 days of bombing and human suffering that he witnessed.

The Wind That Did Not Blow
The Wind That Did Not Blow

Author: Tim Doppel

Publisher: Tim D Books

Published: 2024-01-29

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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The Feast of Shavuot is approaching, and Jerusalem is on high alert. It has been a mere fifty days (what the Greeks call a Pentecost) since a tumultuous Passover. Unbeknownst to each other, three travelers are making their way to Jerusalem for the festival where their lives will be forever changed when they encounter the Disciples of Jesus of Nazareth in the square beneath the Upper Room. The Disciples of Jesus of Nazareth are about to rock the world of three unsuspecting pilgrims, who are all making their way to Jerusalem for the Feast of Shavuot. Lucius, the brother of Simon the Cyrene, Cadmus, a friend of Pontius Pilate, and Mikaela, a simple Judean potter; each of them has their own purpose for the journey - yet none of them are prepared for the intense spiritual transformation they will experience when they reach the courtyard beneath the Upper Room. In The Wind That Did Not Blow, readers will be transported to a time and place of great turmoil and faith and will be captivated by the lives of these characters as they face unexpected revelations and come together in the name of love.

Fast Times in Palestine
Fast Times in Palestine

Author: Pamela j. Olson

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1580054838

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For much of her life—like many Westerners—most of what Pamela Olson knew of the Middle East was informed by headlines and stereotypes. But when she traveled to Palestine in 2003, she found herself thrown with dizzying speed into the realities of Palestinian life. Fast Times in Palestine is Olson's powerful, deeply moving account of life in Palestine-both the daily events that are universal to us all (house parties, concerts, barbecues, and weddings) as well as the violence, trauma, and political tensions that are particular to the country. From idyllic olive groves to Palestinian beer gardens, from Passover in Tel Aviv to Ramadan in a Hamas village, readers will find Olson's narrative both suspenseful and discerning. Her irresistible story offers a multi-faceted understanding of the Palestinian perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict, filling a gap in the West's understanding of the difficult relationship between the two nations. At turns funny, shocking, and galvanizing, Fast Times in Palestine is a gripping narrative that challenges our ways of thinking-not only about the Middle East, but about human nature, cultural identity, and our place in the world.

How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone
How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone

Author: Rosie Garthwaite

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2011-07-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1608195856

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Offers advice on surviving the extreme conditions of war zones, covering topics ranging from how to avoid land mines and amputate a limb to handling hostage situations and foraging for safe food.

Finding Palestine
Finding Palestine

Author: Liza Elliott

Publisher: Hope Publishing House

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780932727978

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In 1948 Secretary of State George Marshall told President Truman he'd not vote for the president's re-election should he recognize Israel--and warned that the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine would lead to war. More than 50 years later, war rages on, with America giving $3 billion annually in aid to Israel. Has America's one-sided policy led to terrorism on all sides? Liza Elliott, Ph.D explains here the ways the truth about the Middle East has been covered up--and runs contrary to everything Americans have learned. This book examines what politicians don't want you to know about U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and the reason Palestinian children find martyrdom attractive. She also discusses ways America has derailed the Palestinian statehood and supported ethnic and religious cleansing--while sidestepping the Geneva Convention. Dr. Elliott describes what life is like inside the occupied territories where America spends $10 million a day to push Palestinians off their land.

The Palestine Laboratory
The Palestine Laboratory

Author: Antony Loewenstein

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2023-05-23

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 183976208X

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How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine **WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE** **Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an “enemy” population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers this largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting. This book shows in-depth, for the first time, how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the 'Start-up Nation'. From the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos' and Jamal Khashoggi’s phones, the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas and drones used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown. Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware that fuels the globe’s most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model.

Palestine Yesterday, today and tomorrow
Palestine Yesterday, today and tomorrow

Author: Dr. Tareq M. Suwaidan

Publisher: الابداع الفكري ِEbdaa Fekry Publishing

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 8496557324

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The aim of this book is not merely to provide an account of historical events in a region that is the focus of world attention, but to explain—through data, facts, documents and the biographies of prominent figures who have played a leading role in shaping Palestine—the undeniable realities that should be taken into account in building the future of Palestine on the basis of law and legality, and not on the basis of ethno-political claims tainted by fanatical or dogmatic stances.