02079nam a22002777a 4500 20211117161754.0 211117b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 03855114565 AL eng 23 305.800 NATO Susan Nathan 10566 Other side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish Arab Divide New York Nan A Talese 2005 xv,310p. HB 24x16 cm. 25.00 $ 25.00 The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth. Susan Nathan’s revelatory book about her new life across the ethnic divide in Israel is already creating international interest. At a time when Middle Eastern politics (in many ways central to the current world disorder) have become mired in endless tit-for-tat killings, Susan Nathan is showing – by her own daily example – that it is perfectly possible for Jews and Arabs to live peacefully together in a single community, recognising their common humanity. The author’s familiarity with the former injustices of apartheid South Africa enables her to draw telling comparisons with the state of Israel. The increasing segregation of, and discrimintation against, the million-strong Arabic population of Israel is something she witnesses at first hand, but in describing her experiences in Tamra she is as observant of Arab frailties as of Jewish oppression. Written with warmth, compassion and humour, ‘The Other Side of Israel’ is one courageous woman’s positive life-enhancing response to a situation in which entrenched attitudes lead only to more violence and bloodshed. Social Group 10567 Israel Tamra 10568 Multiculturalism 10569 Cultural Pluralism 10570 Ethnic Relations 10571 Palestinian Arabs 10572 NATHAN (Susan) 10573 ddc GF 220654 220654 0 0 ddc 0 0 SOC AL AL 2013-03-24 0 305.800 NATO GF03309 2021-11-17 00:00:00 2021-11-17 GF