The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan (2006)
This book purports to be the unlikely friendship between an Arab man, Bashir, and a Jewish woman, Dalia, and a house in Israel that had belonged Bashir's family before the creation of the State of Israel. After the creation of the State of Israel, Dalia's family lived in the house. As young adults, the two meet, when Bashir went to visit his family home.
The book made me very angry because it presented a one-sided view of the history of the State of Israel. Even the words chosen, such as calling Israeli's "settlers" shows bias. Nearly all Israelis depicted in the book, with the exception of Dalia and her husband, come off as being bad and uncompassionate
Read: September 26, 2015
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