Between the River and the Sea: Memories of Palestine and Israel

In this powerful illustrated memoir, Hillel Cohen—journalist, political activist, and a leading expert on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict—sets aside cultural bias and professional neutrality to trace his own travels through the West Bank as a youth. Fervent and naive, the teenage Cohen wanders through Palestinian villages and homes with assuredness because to do so is his birthright—or so he has always been told. But outside of Jerusalem and its tightly-knit Jewish community, his certainty...