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Sharon and My Mother-in-Law by Suad Amiry
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it was amazing
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Great humorous (though I did cry multiple times) book on living in Occupied Palestine. Lots of the same heart breaking stories you have always heard-olive groves demolished, people forced to leave their homes in 1948 (the other day at my international ladies' program we had cultural day and a little old lady got up and told in broken English how she fled her home in 1948 and has never been back to Palestine since yet she proudly writes it each week on her name tag as her country), security at airports, check points, not being able to get to work, not being able to get to school, not being able to see family, Saud was even separated from her husband for a while, house searches, cars flatten, curfews-and all of this for law abiding Palestinians. Its a great read to open your eyes and get your blood pumping.
I do recommend Blessed are the Peacemakers by Audeh Rantisi (a Pal pastor) and Light Force by Brother Andrew (an unbiased outsiders thought) for a more uplifting and Christian perspective. But this personal account from a free spirited nonreligious lady is good.
And while she doesn't go into causes or solutions it makes me sad to think this whole nation of people are living under such oppression (or they innocent now? not really but that doesn't change the original thought) because one European nation killed a bunch of Jews and other European people said well let's give them a country where they lived 2000 years ago before another European nation kicked them out.
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August 17, 2007 – Shelved
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Elizabeth long complicated answer that I won't scratch the surface of: after WW1 the Europeans drew a bunch of borders and gave semi-autonomous control to Arab states, some didn't become totally independent until the 1950s. Palestine was not included in self-rule because in 1917 the British agreed to look into creating a Jewish state (some early Zionists wanted their new country in be in the US) so after WWII Israel was rushed into creation in 1948 without regard to the communities currently residing there like the mandate said. If you look into the drawing of borders its kinda funny. Like some Brits traveled around Oman asking each villages' Sheik if he pledged allegiance to the Sultan of Oman or UAE and that's how the crazy border with pockets of Oman in UAE were drawn.


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