- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press (18 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226755746
- ISBN-13: 978-0226755748
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,032,974 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"David Shulman's book, Dark Hope, is one of the most fascinating and moving accounts of Israeli-Palestinian attempts to help, indeed to save, human beings suffering under the burden of occupation and terror. Anyone who is pained and troubled by what is happening in the Holy Land should read this human document, which indeed offers a certain dark hope." - A. B. Yehoshua"
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For decades, we've been shocked by images of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But for all their power, those images leave us at a loss: from our vantage at home, it's hard for us to imagine the struggles of those living in the midst of the fighting. Now, American-born Israeli David Shulman takes us right into the heart of the conflict with "Dark Hope", an eye-opening chronicle of his work as a member of the peace group Ta'ayush, which takes its name from the Arabic for "living together." Though Shulman never denies the complexity of the issues fueling the conflict - nor the culpability of people on both sides - he forcefully clarifies the injustices perpetrated by Israel by showing us the human dimension of the occupation. Here we meet Palestinians whose houses have been blown up by the Israeli army, shepherds whose sheep have been poisoned by settlers, farmers stripped of their land by Israel's dividing wall. We watch as whip-swinging police on horseback attack crowds of nonviolent demonstrators, as Israeli settlers shoot innocent Palestinians harvesting olives, and as families and communities become utterly destroyed by the unrelenting violence of the occupation. Opposing such injustices, Shulman and his companions - Israeli and Palestinian both - doggedly work through checkpoints to bring aid, rebuild houses, and physically block the progress of the dividing wall. As they face off against police, soldiers, and hostile Israeli settlers, anger mixes with compassion, moment of kinship alternate with confrontation, and, throughout, Shulman wrestles with his duty to fight the cruelty enabled by "that dependable and devastating human failure to feel." With "Dark Hope", Shulman has written a book of deep moral searching, an attempt to discover how his beloved Israel went wrong - and how, through acts of compassionate disobedience, it might still be brought back.
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Difficult truth-telling
28 Sep 2007
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As an American Jew who just spent 6 months in Israel, this was a difficult and important book for me to read. The author writes of first-hand experience in the Israeli peace movement, and the challenging relationships between people on both sides of the Green Line. No one comes off looking perfect - not Israelis or Palestinians, right-wing or left-wing - but all the actors are flawed in one way or another, product of a terrible history. The book gave me hope that human beings can mend long-standing conflict, even if imperfectly and slowly. The story is, of necessity, biased, as it tells of one man's personal experiences, but still worth reading.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Dark Hope towards Enlightenment
29 May 2007
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Extremely well-written account of Israeli peace activists working to bring a bit of justice to the day to day lives of Palestineans under the Occupation.
Reveals a glimpse of the future in the fraternal interactions and warm personal relations that develop between Palestineans and Israelis when the task is to clear a roadblock, bring blankets to a village or harvest a crop faced with hostile settlers.
A great read.
Reveals a glimpse of the future in the fraternal interactions and warm personal relations that develop between Palestineans and Israelis when the task is to clear a roadblock, bring blankets to a village or harvest a crop faced with hostile settlers.
A great read.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
It is easy to be for perfection
28 July 2011
Format:Hardcover
Were I a father of a son killed by those who would destroy Israel, I would have a distinct dislike of David Shulman. Being for peace is easy...when one is only working on one side of the problem. Shulman, smart, capable and with a big heart does not however take his message to the other side. Doubtlessly, the actions he described happened..but, we only get to see it through his eyes. He speaks continuously of TERROR caused by the Israeli's...but, I've no idea what he means when he uses the word. I see babies crumbled, women and children destroyed, innocents slaughtered. Shulman sees mistreatment. He does his adopted country a disservice. He has it easy...at anytime he wants, he puts himself and his family on a jet leaving Tel Aviv and lands with is sense of moral superiority intact, in Iowa. To actually test his thesis of peace, I'd suggest he take the idea to the Muslim Brotherhood or Hamas and work out a deal whereby Israel, with ANY borders, has the sworn legal support of the Arab states or political entities to the existence of Israel as a state. What we know is the hundreds of millions of Arabs are determined to see to it that Israel and all its Jews are destroyed. Period. Negotiation means nothing when there isn't any kind of a middle ground to be reached. How does anyone negotiate with people what want the state and all of its inhabitants destroyed. Shulman would be dead in a few moments after crossing...well, maybe not...he is a great propagandist for the Arabs.
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