Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in
Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the
experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and
Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine. In cramped Haifa
high-rises, in homes in the settlements and in a refugee camp on
the West Bank, she talks with whomever she meets, trying to
understand them and their attitudes with her customary curiosity,
her acute ear and mind, her empathy, her openness to the experience
and her moral seriousness. Behind the book lies a desire to
communicate the reality of life on the ground, and to puzzle out
for herself what might be done to alleviate the suffering of all
who wish to share this land and to make peace in the region a
possibility. Meeting the wise, the foolish and the frankly deluded,
she gradually knits together a picture of the patchwork that
constitutes both sides of the divide - Hamas and Fatah, rural and
urban, refugee, indigenous inhabitant, Russian, Black Hebrew and
Kabbalist to name but a fraction. She finds compassion and empathy
in both communities, but is also appalled by instances of its lack
on both sides - a Palestinan woman who will not concede the
suffering of Jewish civilian victims of a suicide bomber, and the
Jewish inhabitants of Hebron who make the lives of their Muslim
neighbours a living hell. Clinging to hope, Dervla comes to believe
that despite its difficulties the only viable future lies in a
single democratic state of Israel/Palestine, based on one person,
one vote - a One-State Solution.
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