Given the bleak reality in the Holy Land, how much change can any one book generate? A just peace seems as remote today as at any time since the Nakba, or, if you prefer, the War of Independence, in 1948. Yes, being moved to understand history in a new way is powerful indeed. Yet it is something else to understand and influence the structures of power which hold the status quo in place; indeed, which squeeze the pincers ever tighter.
