Amazon.com The correspondent for The New York Times in Jerusalem from 1979 to 1984， David K. Shipler brings a very American moral commitment to the problem of Arab-Jewish relations. The occupation of the West Bank was by then a static fact of life; many young Israelis and Palestinians had grown up knowing no other reality. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the massacres of Palestinians by Lebanese militiamen at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps， which were under Israeli control， had shaken the consciences of many American Jews. Many of the voices in this book are American， from idealistic young secular Jews working for Arab-Jewish cooperation to the more fanatical followers of Meir Kahane. This work， which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction， gives Shipler's narrative the power of a terrible family argument. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly The Jew， in the Arab stereotype， is a brutal， violent coward; the Arab， to the prejudiced Jew， is a primitive creature of animal vengeance and cruel desires. There is remarkable symmetry in these images， as Shipler (Russia: Broken Idols， Solemn Dreams points out in this hefty mixture of reportage， personal histories， interviews and scholarship. An act of courage and clarity， the book is an important contribution to the literature on the Middle East. The New York Times correspondent shows how Israeli Jews deny the reality that Palestinian Arabs are victims of forcible displacement and expulsion from what was once their homeland; he describes how a "synthetic Israeli history" is taught to Jewish schoolchildren， while Palestinian boys and girls in the refugee camps are taught militant rhetoric and hatred. Shipler explores the corrosive effects of terrorism by both sides， the zeal of Islamic fundamentalists， as well as that of Israeli ultraconservatives. BOMC and History Book Club alternates; first serial to the New York Times Magazine. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information， Inc. See all Editorial Reviews