But that is the logic of the US’s military alliance with what the Israeli human rights organisation, B’Tselem, has called an apartheid state. Such politicians find the slaughter of children with rockets, and American journalists with bullets, much more palatable than the murder of children by suicide bombers. As usual, in such situations, American politicians are to be found on social media congratulating themselves for the US military support to Israel that allows its leadership to launch such attacks on Gaza with impunity. I finished this book just before Israel launched its latest series of child-killing attacks on Gaza. But it ranges even more widely, into the lives of their families, including their murdered daughters, and into the cultural and political history of Israel and Palestine. Both are the fathers of murdered children: Rami’s daughter, Smadar, was murdered by Palestinian suicide bombers Bassam’s daughter, Abir, was murdered by Israeli soldiers.Īpeirogon is the story of how, in particular, these two men have sought to advocate for peace by building mutual understanding. Both understand that peace requires people to talk to each other and try to understand each other’s point of view. Both understand the deep, moral corrosiveness of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Rami Ethanan, a graphic designer, and Bassam Aramin, a scholar, are friends. Summary: a desperately sad but hopeful perspective on Israeli Apartheid and the illegal occupation of Palestine
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