An experts' guide: culture to help understand the Israel-Palestine conflict | Middle East and north Africa
Writers and Middle East specialists choose key works – histories, novels, podcasts, documentaries and more – to explain the current crisis
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Writers and Middle East specialists choose key works – histories, novels, podcasts, documentaries and more – to explain the current crisis
"If you will it, it is no dream" wrote the founder of political Zionism Theodor Herzl in 1902, prophesizing the creation of a utopian Jewish state. One hundred years later, some of the harshest critics of Israel's occupation policies are Israelis themselves # a small minority of intellectuals, political activists and artists whose voices are rarely heard outside Israel. Shortly before the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian War in March 2002, filmmakers Benny Brunner and Joseph Rochlitz traveled through the country and spoke to a number of them: Meir Shalev - one of Israel...