Dark Hope

An attempt to discover how his beloved Israel went wrong and how, through acts of compassionate disobedience, it might be brought back, is examined in this eye-opening chronicle of the author's work as a member of the peace group Ta'ayush.

Autorentext
David Shulman is the Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was born in Iowa but moved to Israel in 1967 at age eighteen. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 1987, Shulman is the author or coauthor of nineteen books, including The Hungry God: Hindu Tales of Filicide and Devotion, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Klappentext
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.

Zusammenfassung
For decades, we've been shocked by images of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. The author takes the reader into the heart of the conflict. He, then, attempts to discover how his beloved Israel went wrong - and how, through acts of compassionate disobedience, it might be brought back.

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