The Lemon Tree
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In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-ancient, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved ancient stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family tree had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he establish the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-ancient Israeli college student, whose family tree fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the lower yourself of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir started a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Based on wide research, and springing from his enormously resonant documentary that aired on NPR’s Fresh Air in 1998, Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, suggesting that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist tales of hope and reconciliation. With a new introduction by the leader. Sandy Tolan is the leader of Me & Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-five Years Later. He has written extensively for magazines and newspapers, and has produced dozens of documentaries for National Public Radio and Public Radio International. He was a 1993 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an I. F. Stone Fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Television journalism, where he teaches international reporting. Praise for The Lemon Tree: “No novel could be more compelling…This book- will haunt you long after you place it down. And it will certainly be one of the best works of nonfiction that you will read this year.”-Christian Science Monitor “A graceful, compassionate and unmuddied presentation of Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lives of an Arab and a Jew, strangers who forge a tie and a reconciliation while never veering from their passionate desires for a homeland.”-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Reasonably simply the most vital book I’ve read f
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I’m not surprised that people can get along lacking fighting all the time. Most people are reasonable most of the time. They do not have to fight interminably.
Relations between Germans and Jews were terrible in the 1930s and 1940s. Of course, this was an asymmetrical situation. Jews, being a minority, had to support minority rights. Germans did not have to do any such thing, and in this case, their society did not. Still, most of the time, most people are reasonable, and today, relations between Germans and Jews are vastly improved.
Relations between Arabs and Jews have been terrible for some time, for the same reason. Jews, being a minority, need to support minority rights. But Arabs do not need to do this, and their society has been doing something else as a replacement for. Still, even in the midst of the war that such a policy has generated, there are plenty of Arabs and Jews who delight in excellent relations with each additional. We ought not be surprised by this.
What we ought to be on the lookout for are persons who do imply that people ought not get along, or who simply demonize entire nations. Yes, some nations have indeed been aggressors, but that does not justify demonic characterizations of them. And needless to say, the fact that some nations have primarily been victims of aggression does not justify demonizing them either.
In this book, we are treated to the supposedly surprising fact that some people do try to get along. As I said, I am not too surprised. And we are encouraged not to demonize entire nations, and I like that. But we ought to be language out fervently against persons who are precluding peace today, and I reflect that by not doing that, the leader is part of the problem.
Sandy Tolan is being reasonable when he quotes the Israeli lady as adage that peace is going to require Acknowledgment, Apology, and Amends. I reflect it will indeed require all of this. But they are both incorrect to imply that what is needed is a fake confession, an apology, and amends from the Israeli victims of Arab aggression. I reflect we need to be aware of the fundamental problem in this conflict if we’re going to end it. And that problem is and has been intolerance by many Arabs of human rights for Middle Eastern Jews. Tolan avoids confronting that problem, and by doing so I reflect he is helping to make matters worse.
In this book, the Arab says that there is a natural “right of return.” Again, I reflect there should indeed be something akin to such a right. Namely, I reflect that all people, including Jews and Arabs, should indeed be permitted to bid for and buy property in what they see as their favorite lands. But no people ought to have a right to ruin the country they choose to go to, as countries are likely to defend themselves, whether we say they have a right to do so or not.
In this book, the Jewish lady argues in favor of a two-state solution. Maybe she’s right. But I doubt it. Few people really want to have two tiny states. If this were tried, the Arab state would probably exist only to ruin the Jewish one. And that would not be excellent for anyone. I do reflect people could find a better solution than this if they really wanted to.
Meanwhile, the Arab argues for a binational state. But I doubt that this would work either. That concept has been tried, and it failed. Jewish rights could not be protected in 1939 to 1948 primarily because Israel did not yet exist. That is why Israel does exist now. The threats to Jewish rights have not gone away, so I reflect that a binational state would just result in much more misery.
What solution do I suggest? Well, I reflect we ought to start by simply calming down, taking a deep breath, realizing that Israel is a tiny nation, and not overdramatizing the conflict. The next step ought to be to insist on truth, not propaganda, as a means to figure out what to do. We humans thrive on truth. After that, yes, acknowledgment, apologies, and amends would help reasonably a bit. And after that, agreed that peace is in fact excellent for both sides, we could finally let persons who live in the region figure out how to get along, rather than cheering for both sides to prolong this unfortunate situation.
There is plenty of material in this book that is indeed worth reading. And it does, for example, show the intransigence of some of the Arabs for whom peace would surely be of at least some value. And, yes, occasionally I am generous and give more stars to a book that may not deserve them. But I just can’t bring myself to do that for this particular book, which I feel has a huge fundamental problem.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
this book is asymmetrical warfare: a ludicrous spinfest that rewrites history by simply omitting all inconvenient facts.
for bring shame on.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
What’s missing from this bitter, trashy novel is the part of the tale that belongs to 1 million Jews from Arab lands, all of whom were chased from their homes with nothing but the shirts on their backs.
In thousands of cases, these Jews died trying to escape from their oppressors–the Arabs and Muslims of the Middle East and Iran. What’s also missing from this trashy novel is that fact that half of Israel’s population is made up of persons Jewish survivors (and their heirs) of Arab and Iranian persecution in lands that they cannot ever safely visit again, no matter what.
Not only did they lose everything, but they managed to rebuild their lives in a state that welcomed them, when the rest of the world turned a blind and uncaring eye. That state, God bless her, is Israel. I’ll probably die before we ever see an NPR reporter tell that truth, in a novel or anywhere else.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a deeply flawed, biased , and even treacherous book as it has a veneer of credibility. Some aspects of history are accurate and the beginning of the book presents some nearly balanced ,parallel views of what happened to the lives of two families who inhabited the same house after the War of 1948 . But,at the end of the book, the leader lapses into a slanted polemic that is fervently biased toward the Palestinians. Throughout, the leader recounts the imprisonments of S. Khairi the Palestinian protagonist as though he is an innocent , wrongly imprisoned by the Israelis. Real details of his work in the Well loved Front for the Liberation of Palestinian and its terrorist activities are not provided, and would be instructive . The authors selective inattention to detail is deplorable. Don’t waste your time reading this book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Pretending to be just a reporter, pretending to be balanced, what he really does present a partial picture for the purpose of disparaging Israel. Of course many readers will like this, because by corrupt means trashing Israel is trendy on the left these days. Alas, as for actual insight, or helping us go towards solutions in the region, this work work is a major step backwards.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5