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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

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In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found the house he was greeted by Dalia Ashkenazi Landau, a nineteen-year-old Israeli college student, whose family fled Europe for Israel following the Holocaust. On the stoop of their shared home, Dalia and Bashir began a rare friendship, forged in the aftermath of war and tested over the next thirty-five years in ways that neither could imagine on that summer day in 1967. Based on extensive research, and springing from his enormously resonant documentary that aired on NPR’s Fresh Air in 1998, Sandy Tolan brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict down to its most human level, suggesting that even amid the bleakest political realities there exist stories of hope and reconciliation.

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From: Amazon Posted: Oct 25, 2007 Type: User Review Interesting, but biased, view of the conflict...

I was eagerly anticipating the much-touted "unbiased" viewpoint of Mr. Tolan. However, when the Palestinian viewpoint is expressed by one who has lived through the conflict from the beginning, and the Israeli viewpoint is expressed by one who...
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From: Amazon Posted: Oct 14, 2007 Type: User Review Good book, we read it in class

It's a good fairly objective book (although it's pretty much impossible to be truly unbiased in anything). It's definitely good at getting on two sides of this multifaced beast of an issue to cover. You'll never find a book on the Arab-Israeli...
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From: Amazon Posted: Oct 03, 2007 Type: User Review The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew and the Heart of the MIddle East

This book is a poignant story of the people drawn up into the Arab-Israeli conflict. It takes the premise that both sides have committed atrocities and both sides have been victimized. It does so by following both a Palestinian and Jewish...
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From: Amazon Posted: Oct 02, 2007 Type: User Review The Lemon Tree

THE LEMON TREE, by Sandy Tolan, is a historical perspective of the Palestine/Israel problems viewed from two lives, one Arab man and one Israeli woman. Their factual stories are given from the history of the land and the divisions made by...
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From: Amazon Posted: Aug 23, 2007 Type: User Review A biased view of the Middle East conflict

Although when I began The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan, I believed this book would be a balanced and nuances work about the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. The book opens with a description of a home which had been built and inhabited by...
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