HOLY LAND, UNHOLY WAR by Guardia, Anton La ISBN 0719556015
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Featuring an experienced journalist's eye for irony, anecdote and the telling detail, Anton La Guardia here provides a portrait of the people behind the headlines in Israel and Palestine. The book is part iconoclastic history and part contemporary political reportage.
Writing dispassionately about the Holy Land, said Mark Twain, is as hard as being dispassionate about your own wife or children. More than a century after Twain led the way for mass tourism to what was then a remote corner of the Ottoman Empire, the difficulties are redoubled. Today's struggles of the Israelis and Palestinians - with their larger-than-life histories of disaster and redemption - command the obsessive attention of the world. Statesmen tinker with peace plans for the Middle East and generals imagine future wars there. Religious leaders stoke the violent passions of the devout while do-gooders try to save the people from themselves. Pilgrims flock to find God as archaeologists dig to find the origins of His revelations. All this and more takes place under the eye of an army of reporters, observers, diplomatic envoys and aid workers. The country between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River is a place of modern fable and ancient prophecy, where dreams and ideals collide with the reality of violent nationalist struggles, where God's name is invoked in defence of the jealousies of men. With the experienced journalist's eye for irony, anecdote and the telling detail, Anton La Guardia offers an intimate portrait of the people behind the headlines. He discovers the vicissitudes and pain of the Israelis as they come to terms with the 'post-Zionist' demolition of national myths, and of the Palestinians as they try to build their own state. His book is part iconoclastic history and part contemporary political reportage. A dispassionate account may be impossible, but this one is written with all the affection and frustration of one who finds himself among family.
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HOLY LAND, UNHOLY WAR
[edit] Author
Guardia, Anton La
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0719556015
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19/07/2001
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John Murray Publishers Ltd
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hardback
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