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by Isabel Kershner

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Isabel Kershner

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978-1403968012

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1403968012

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English

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St. Martin's Press (November 29, 2005)

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Social Sciences

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Politics & Government

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As the future relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is being determined, Barrier: The Seam of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is an important book that addresses one of the most controversial solutions. They posed an existential threat to the Israeli way of life, with parents scared of going together to a restaurant or supermarket for fear of leaving behind orphans, and with children not knowing if the bus they were riding to school would ever arrive. The terrorists also posed a strategic threat, dictating a war policy and vetoing any chance for a resumption of political talks.

Kershner provides rich and insightful portraits of Israeli settlers feeling abandoned on the wrong side of the fence; Palestinian farmers angry at being cut off from their lands and groves; Arab families split up in a town now divided by the barrier; and Israelis protesting that it is an obstacle to peace

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Kershner has also been accused of anti-Israel bias in her coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in. .Barrier: The Seam of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Barrier: The Seam of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Palgrave, Macmillan, 2005. Israeli journalist Kershner provides detailed descriptions of her meetings with Israelis and Palestinians from both sides of the barrier Israel is constructing to separate the West Bank from Israel.

In this moving account of the barriers between Israelis and Palestinians, leading Israeli journalist Isabel Kershner traces the route of the wall Israel is building and reports its profound effects on people living on both sides. Kershner provides rich and insightful portraits of Israeli settlers feeling abandoned on the wrong side of the fence; Palestinian farmers angry at being cut off from their lands and groves; Arab families split up in a town now divided by the barrier; and Israelis protesting that it is an obstacle to peace. Exploring the reasons for the barrier and its political and moral implications, Kershner focuses on the people committed to their causes. As the future relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is being determined, this important book addresses one of the most controversial solutions.

Anaragelv

I picture the Israeli-Palestinian conflict like the graphic computer simulations of a black hole in space-time. What you see is a neat mesh of lines that, near the black hole, becomes wildly distorted. So, too, is there a similarity with Einstein's thought-experiment of travel near the speed of light...what the traveler experiences and what the "stationary" observer of that traveler sees appear unreconcilable, yet both the traveler and the observer could claim truth is on their side.

This book follows the strands of human life, the mesh of those lives near the black hole, the "holy land". The author lets us see different perspectives while easing us through the background of events and people that have created the situation and live with it.

Less than a year old (published late 2005), this book takes us up past the death of Arafat but ends before Sharon's stroke. We meet farmers and townspeople, the highly placed and the low, the wealthy and the poor, the bitter, the outraged and the complacent, the victims on both sides. You begin to understand the tragedy of the whole situation, of the dreams that end in nightmare, of the horrors that some wish to make reality, of those who are determined beyond the reach of reason, of those who work to destroy all hope while claiming to preserve it.

I am 55 years old and have lived through a good portion of the episodes of this tragic region, though at a far remove. I know reasonable people who, when this subject arises, become unrecognizable in their thinking. I expect my last breath will be drawn with it still unresolved. It is the place where the rock meets the hard place, where for every one who would make a concession, there is another who will give none and this book portrays it revealingly.

Phallozs Dwarfs

Isabel Kershner is currently a NYTimes Correspondent in Israel. She has covered Israeli-Palestinian issues for some time and is an experienced hand. In considering the question of the defensive barrier built and being built by Israel to prevent terrorist attacks on its population she speaks to all parties involved. She speaks to Palestinian Arab villagers whose lives are made more difficult by the barrier, and to Israeli settlers who also oppose it as dividing the land they wish to see unified. She speaks with Israeli defense people who defend the Barrier , and human rights demonstrators who rally against it. She appears to be in one sense objective but her tilt is more to the Palestinian side.
There is a feeling that she does not underline strongly enough the Palestinian rejection of the very right of existence for Israel.

Agamaginn

Kershner is married to a PR man for Israel. She's a liar that feigns objectivity. She doesn't care that Israel kills children, and then when Palestinians react, they're called terrorists. She doesn't mention that the attacks from Palestinians are actually retaliations for Israelis that love to kill Palestinian children. Even the title show's you her lack of objectivity. The barrier is placed in Palestinian territories. Israel is breaking international law by even building settlements there, let alone placing barriers in other people's lands.

Right now, Israel has a manifest destiny outlook. They came in and displaced the people living in those lands. They believe that the land is theirs, given to them by God. They believe that any person of Jewish faith, living anywhere, as more right to live in the west bank because there were Jewish people living there thousands of years ago. The people that are currently inhabiting the land must go, just like they had to leave before. Kershner will be there rooting of the death of all Palestinians (or exile) while pretending to be objective. Yet for those Muslim-haters, this Jewish woman married to a man whose official job is to make Israel look good, will be seen as pro-palestinian. What a joke.

If you're one of the many people that love genocide of brown people, buy this book.

Garr

I always wanted to know more about this "Barrier" and it's affects it would have in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I was not disappointed.The author shows both view points and it's relationship to the people lives on a daily basis. A must read for anyone interested in learning more about the middle east and the people who live there.

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