Readers familiar with the political situation in Israel and Palestine will notice that the driving forces in the heart of this book, Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan, are real. By “real” I mean that their stories—and those of their daughters, Abir Aramin and Smadar Elhanan—have been well documented in film and print. The transcripts of both men in the center section of the book are pulled together from a series of interviews in Jerusalem, New York, Jericho and Beit Jala, but elsewhere in this book Bassam and Rami have allowed me to shape and reshape their words and worlds. Despite these
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