Traveling major highways and secondary roads, walking unpaved
paths, the author recites contradictions of the land between the
Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, the Holy Land. Here,
religion uneasily confronts politics and democracy, sublime nature
undergoes militarization, and hospitality and empathy mix with
brutality, hatred and violence. Everything becomes security: not
just borders and relations with the neighbors, but also water and
archaeological evidence, demography and voting Arabs. Control of
holy sites, perception of illegal immigrants, separate highway
networks and built-up hilltops are all viewed through the prism of
threat and security. Threats proliferate, be they real or
imaginary, spontaneous or politically-driven. Whether in Jerusalem,
the "city of the world", or in small towns, tensions are palpable
between Israel's radical Jews and its Arab residents. Even within
the Jewish community itself, increasingly nationalistic,
animosities between ultra-Orthodox and more secular inhabitants are
on the rise. Christians also feel under attack, as do moderate
Palestinians from their Islamized brethren. In the occupied West
Bank, Palestinian villagers confront radical settlers, often
protected by Israeli soldiers, while in the isolated Gaza, Hamas
imposes ever stricter rules upon its people. Not surprisingly, the
Holy Land has become aplenty with both mental and physical
barriers, with walls, checkpoints, no-go and firing zones. Will
rage and fear, sorrow and despair eventually trump hope? Although
glimmers of hope exist-new water technology, Tel Aviv's culture of
tolerance, more pressures from the international community-the
author remains more pessimistic than ever, as reflected in the
book's title.
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