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A Month By The Sea - Encounters in Gaza (Paperback)
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A Month By The Sea - Encounters in Gaza (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 220
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Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza
Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters,
rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the
Strip in times of crisis, the people she met were touched by her
genuine, unflinching interest and spoke openly to her about life in
their open-air prison. What she finds are a people who, far from
the story we are so often fed, overwhelmingly long for peace and an
end to the violence that has so grossly distorted their lives. The
impression we take away from the book is of a people whose real,
complex, nuanced voice has rarely been heard before. A MONTH BY THE
SEA gives unique insight into the way in which isolation has shaped
this society: how it radicalises young men and plays into the hands
of dominating patriarchs, yet also how it hardens determination not
to give in and turns family into a towering source of support.
Underlying the book is Dervla's determination to try to understand
how Arab Palestinians and Israeli Jews might forge a solution and
ultimately live in peace. Dervla looks long and hard at the
hypocrisies of Western and Israeli attitudes to peace', and at
Palestinian attitudes to terrorism. While this shattered people
long for a respite from the bombings that have ripped a hole, both
literally and psychologically, in their world, it seems that
politicians have an agenda that pays little attention to their
plight.
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