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“A Wall in Palestine” - A Book That Cannot Be Safely Ignored

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelvetwelve/item/a_wall_in_palestine_-_a_book_that_cannot_be_safely_ignored_39100320

Ramat Shlomo is in the headlines today, but the next flashpoint may be the security barrier between Israel and the West Bank that is scheduled for completion in 2010. That’s the subject of “A Wall in Palestine” by French journalist Rene Backmann. A best-seller when first published in France in 2006, and newly issued in the United States in an English translation, the book will be profoundly off-putting to many Jewish readers, but it makes a point that cannot be safely ignored — the wall is intended to be a barrier against suicide bombers, but it is also a painful obstacle to peace.

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