‘There are no dispassionate accounts of the conflict that racks the Holy Land, nor should there be. As this intelligent and important book makes clear, it is hard to be dispassionate when you believe that you are fighting for your life; and both the authors remind us that no less than this is what is felt to be at stake. But conflict is always intensified by ignorance. What this book does is to test how far we can go in mapping out a common history and exactly where and how this common history comes to be read differently. It offers no magical solution to this most persistent and harrowing conflict of our times, but it refuses to settle down with slogans, and models the possibility of a painful, honest – even angry – dialogue that does not simply freeze into mutual uncomprehending hatred.’

Over 30,000 copies sold Jointly authored by a Jew and a Palestinian, this is the only book to present both sides of the argument in their true, raw reality New edition fully updated to cover the most recent developments, including the May 2021 crisis in Gaza The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is consistently in the news – it is a subject everyone wants to better understand