T This was a very hard book for
me to read , and even harder to review , dealing as it does with a conflict I have seen up close and personal and a country to which I still have deep ties . Alice Rothchild is a Jewish American physician who has been active for the past 15 years in supporting Palestinian nonviolent resistance movements alongside Israeli peace activists .
PURPOSE
REVIEW & INTERVIEW
Condition Critical : Life and Death in Israel / Palestine
by Alice Rothchild , MD
T This was a very hard book for
me to read , and even harder to review , dealing as it does with a conflict I have seen up close and personal and a country to which I still have deep ties . Alice Rothchild is a Jewish American physician who has been active for the past 15 years in supporting Palestinian nonviolent resistance movements alongside Israeli peace activists .
In trying to understand the origin of the Palestinian Israeli conflict she acknowledges that the State of Israel was established as a haven for world Jewry after centuries of Jewish persecution . She then , however , challenges the legitimacy of the state suggesting that Western
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