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How do you review a book that contains the world?
Everyone should read this - because it’s So Good, and because the story we are usually allowed to hear (written by the “victorious�� Zionists) is not the truth. The Palestinians lived in Palestine forever. They planted and loved their olive trees, their figs, and their families. They were brutally evicted from their homes, humiliated, tortured, randomly eliminated; made to pay for the rage the Zionists felt after the Holocaust when they couldn’t exact revenge on Germany, the Nazis. They still are. Children shot by snipers as they play on their rooftops, old women maimed as they try to buy vegetables, men killed on their way to work, punished for trying to live a life.

“Amal, I believe most Americans do not love as we do. It is not for any deficiency or superiority in them. They live in the safe, shallow parts that rarely push human emotions into the depths where we dwell��.Consider fear. For us, fear comes where terror comes to others because we are anesthetized to the guns constantly pointed at us. And the terror we have known is something few Westerners ever will. Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.
The roots of our grief coils so deeply into loss that death has come to live with us like a family member who makes you happy by avoiding you, but is still one of the family…��