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underneath this rainbow of rockets going back and forth during this time. you forget how small and how confined that battle takes place. >> i have spent time working overseas including out of the jerusalem bureau as well. what struck me as a working journalist in israel is how complicated and multilayered the stories are that we don't really get to talk about for the american audience but the conflict between the cristian and muslim arabs and religion and secular jews and there is so much going on there. >> to really jun stand what is going on in the middle east you have to understand the israeli palestinian conflict. we spent seven and a half years there. we wanted to tell the story. the israeli palestinian conflict is unique because you can cover both sides of the frontlines and be on either side of the frontlines on the same day and see both points of view and we told the story through characters that we met along the way. >> the book is called "this burning land, lessons from the

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