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Making a difference Nov 05, 2006
This book takes you through the writers journey as he learns of the situation in Palestine and the lives of the children in a refugee camp. Honest and open and keen to communicate his feelings on his experiences, Fabrizio gives the reader and flavour of his time in Bethlehem. A good introduction to the conflict and some ideas for how people can get involved.
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Review by New York Times best-selling author Ellen Tanner Marsh. Aug 05, 2006
Review by New York Times best-selling author Ellen Tanner Marsh.
One of the great tragedies of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is that there are no real winners on either side. While much news is focused on Hamas and the actions of terrorists, not enough attention targets the desperate struggle of the Palestinian people who feel they are living in exile. Since August 2003, economist and author Fabrizio Galimberti spent time volunteering in a Palestinian refugee camp. While there, he chronicled his experiences, e-mailing them home to his grown children, as if he were "watching history through a keyhole." And now, at their urging, he has collected these experiences into a shocking, stirring, and heartbreaking book.
Through Galimberti's eyes, we see and hear and experience the grief, joy and unquenchable life force that is Palestine. He takes us to the Aida Camp, which currently holds over 4,000 people, and to the Old City of Hebron, the only place in Palestine where Israelis and Palestinians live side by side, and where suffering and injustice are rampant. Here, Galimberti reports, the Palestinians do not dare to go out at night and their children must be accompanied to school to ensure they are not attacked by settlers' kids. Galimberti believes that this is a deliberate attempt to make living so uncomfortable for the Palestinians that they will leave. But where, he wonders, can they go?
With the addition of powerful and often heartbreaking photographs, Galimberti provides an intimate look into a terrible situation. All royalties from his work will be donated to the Lajee Center of Aida Camp in Bethlehem. Meanwhile, Letters From Palestine is a brave and moving historical record of a people living with incessant flare-ups of violence and with the terrible slow trampling of their spirit.
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