Volume 40, Number 11 · June 10, 1993
The Jews' Jews
By Amos Elon
Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel
by David Grossman, translated by Haim Watzman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 326 pp., $22.00
On a hot night in July 1991, the novelist David Grossman witnessed a debate at a summer camp in the Galilee. The participants were young Jewish Israelis and young Arab Israelis—i.e., Israeli citizens, not to be confused with Arabs in the Occupied Territories. The subjects under discussion that night were the Jewish state's unfair treatment of its Arab citizens and the claims of Jewish Israelis that many Arab citizens are indifferent to Israel's security needs and don't appreciate the moral predicament of the Israelis in administering the Occupied Territories and in dealing with the intifada.
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