Rallying Points
Shlomo Avineri, 1 October 1987
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
by David Shipler.
Bloomsbury, 596 pp., £17.95, June 1987,0 7475 0017 7 Show More
by David Shipler.
Bloomsbury, 596 pp., £17.95, June 1987,
“... honestly and without malice is beside the point. Its astigmatism would verge on blindness. David Shipler’s book on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is a book of this kind. All analogies have their limits, and the Palestinians are obviously not the occupied Germans after World War Two. Yet the basic flaw of Arab and Jew-its its ... ”