The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

by Sandy Tolan

smuggling arms and for collecting "taxes," sometimes by intimidation, to finance the insurgency.

Arabs bullies

"The boundaries of the state," Ben-Gurion wrote, "will not be determined by a U.N. resolution, but by the force of arms."

the eighteen years following the Israeli occupation in June 1967, an estimated 250,000 Palestinians—or 40 percent of the adult male population—had seen the inside of an Israeli jail.

Prison study groups pored over Hegel, Lenin, Marx, Jack London, Pablo Neruda, Bertolt Brecht, the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his One Hundred Years of Solitude, and John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath.