Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine

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Got the book late delivery but never mind great read

Fantastic and unique effort to bridge the dual and contrasting perspectives on the Palestine-Israel conflict. Absolutely recommend it to anyone seeking a balanced, nuanced, and deep insight on the whole issue and its roots.

Informative and the layout is very interesting. You don’t have to read the chapters in order

This is the single best book to read if you want to understand the Israel-Palestine conflict. This would be the first book I would recommend to anyone. There's no way to get a truly unbiased historical narrative. This book provides both history (and narratives), done in a scholarly way, with as modest bias as possible, side-by-side. An achievement.

I am a retired history teacher, and I have been studying the history of Palestine for a long time. I cannot abide any part of the concept that Palestinians do not exist. This particular book is really useful, as it goes through the history of the region, side by side. I have concluded that the likelihood of Palestinians surviving Netanyahoo's attempts to kill them all is beyond anything I can influence. If you care at all, please check out this book to at least read the CONSTANT Zionist efforts to destroy the Palestinians as not worthy of life on earth ...

I love the way this book is constructed. The side by side narratives from both the Palestinians and the Jews is a brilliant concept. For me, the histories given are sometimes a bit shallow. There are errors of fact from both sides, but I guess that's to be expected. I do think this book is worth reading. I believe that few people are well versed in the history of this land and this book will definitely help with understanding some of the issues surrounding the conflict. For a significantly better history book, I would read "Righteous Victims" by Morris, but this book is a long and complicated read. Most people won't won't have the patience to sift through all 800 pages of this difficult history. "Side by Side" is a reasonable but far less in depth history book. I would love to see both Jewish and Palestine high school students using "Side by Side" as their text for the study of the conflict, but I doubt most teachers and schools would endorse such a program. Unfortunately, part of the problem with both Palestinians and Jews is their need to indoctrinate their youth with only their narrative. I once heard a Jewish Israeli "scholar" say that he didn't want Jewish kids going to the Hand In Hand School in Israel. This is a wonderful school that educates kids from kindergarten through 12th grade and has both Jewish and Arab teachers teaching the narrative of both sides. This "scholar" said that he might be okay with sending high school students there, but he certainly didn't want younger students participating in such a program. My interpretation: Let us indoctrinate our kids first, and then maybe we'll let them hear the other viewpoint. Oy vey.