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The way to the spring, life and death in Palestine, Ben Ehrenreich

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-411) and index (pages [412]-428)

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The way to the spring

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Ben Ehrenreich

life and death in Palestine

A brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life. In cities and small villages alike, men and women, young and old, a group of unforgettable characters share their lives with Ehrenreich and make their own case for resistance and resilience in the face of life under occupation. Ruled by the Israeli military, set upon and harassed constantly by Israeli settlers who admit unapologetically to wanting to drive them from the land, forced to negotiate an ever more elaborate and more suffocating series of fences, checkpoints and barriers that have sundered home from field, home from home, this is a population whose living conditions are unique, and indeed hard to imagine--Publisher's description

Nabi Saleh. Prologue -- Life is beautiful : Interlude : the nation of Hani Amer -- The peace of the brave : Interlude : every beginning is different -- Above the carob tree : Interlude : stagecraft -- The ant and the sweet -- Hebron. Prologue -- A matter of hope -- Much less a country -- Low Clouds. Snow : Interlude : the humiliation machine -- Poker : Interlude : what you see -- So easy, so hard -- A Deep Dark Blue. Prologue : if only -- My brother's keeper -- Satan never dreamed -- Epilogue