Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine

by Marc H. Ellis

Book Overview

For Palestinians, the 1948 massacre by Irgun and allied Stern Gang soldiers of more than 200 residents of Deir Yassin, a tiny village near Jerusalem, resonates sharply as a focal point of history. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566562910
• ISBN13: 9781566562911
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An eye opener HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

The book is amazing and very easy to read. What I love about it is that its not a long book but still manages to retain all the important details and shows exactly what happened in Deir Yassin. I would recommend the book to everyone who is looking for the other side of the story.For everyone who doesnt believe that "Deir Yassin Never Happened". For everyone one who wish to understand the atrocities commited by the Israelis.

a beautiful memorial book.....

I have enjoyed reading this book. Its many contributors from both Israeli and Palestinian society have made it a wonderful dialogue. Whether ones interest is in the Deir Yassin Massacre, or the greater Arab-Israeli conflict, this book is enlightening for the varied perspectives that are part and parcel of the conflict. Too many peices tend to lack human depth, no matter which side of the conflict it covers. This composition lends that human element, and reminds one the impacts of ideology and history have played unfair games with the lives of men, women, and children.

A Well-Balanced Account

The sad story of what happened in Deir Yassin is told through the research of 12 individuals whose papers are joined together here to make this book. It is written in much the same style as "Iraq Under Siege". The story of the massacre at Deir Yassin lives in infamy, but its history is quickly becoming forgotten as urban development now covers the site... a site that ironically (or not) sits within a stone's throw of the Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem, in Israel in somber rememberance of the 6 million Jewish innocents that were massacred by Hitler in WWII.Chapter 11, "Christianity and the Future of Israeli-Palestinian Relations" is one of the best written in the book. All chapters are thought provoking and written with succinct clarity.I especially appreciated this book not only for its candor, but because it maintained an essence of ecumenicalism between Christians, Jews, and Muslims that many other books do not afford. This is a must read for EVERYONE!