Volume 54, Number 19 · December 6, 2007
A Moral Witness to the 'Intricate Machine'
By Avishai Margalit
Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
by David Shulman
University of Chicago Press, 226 pp., $22.00
'I am an Israeli. I live in Jerusalem. I have a story, not yet finished, to tell.' This is the opening line of David Shulman's powerful and memorable book, Dark Hope, a diary of four years of political activity in Israel and the Palestinian territories. It is a record of the author's intense involvement with a volunteer organization composed of Israeli Palestinians and Israeli Jews, called Ta'ayush, an Arabic term for 'living together' or 'life in common.' The group was founded in October 2000, soon after the start of the second Palestinian intifada.
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