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The Israeli army invaded Ramallah in March 2002. A tank stood at the end of Raja Shehadeh's road; Israeli soldiers patrolled from the roof toops. Four soldiers took over his brother's apartment and then used him as a human shield as they went through the building, while his wife tried to keep her composure for the sake of their frightened childred, ages four and six.
This is an account of what it is like to be under seige: the terror, the frustrations, the humiliations, and the rage. How do you pass your time when you are imprisoned in your own home? What do you do when you cannot cross the neighborhood to help your sick mother?
Shehadeh's recent memoir, Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine, was the first book by a Palestinian writer to chronicle a life of displacement on the West Bank from 1967 to the present. It received international acclaim and was a finalist for the 2002 Lionel Gelber Prize. When the Birds Stopped Singing is a book of the moment, a chronicle of life today as lived by ordinary Palestinians throughout the West Bank and Gaza in the grip of the most stringent Israeli security measures in years. And yet it is also an enduring document, at once literary and of great political import, that should serve as a cautionary tale for today's and future generations.
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John Sumner
reviewed When the Bird Stopped Singing: Life in Ramallah Under Seige on September 13, 2013 When the Bird Stopped Singing
I have never shared as many quotes from a book with friends as I did with this one. I feel like nearly all the news I had heard on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict focused on the suicide bombings and how Israel had to do something to protect itself from terror. I had never heard a first hand account of what the Palestinians were suffering under the occupation. Raja Shehadeh is a human rights activist and a lawyer. His first hand account is even-handed, insightful and eloquent and as this comes from his diaries, the stories are quite short, but incredibly illuminating. Even though he never condones the suicide bombings and points out how they have really made things much worse for Palestinians, his descriptions of how horribly the Israeli soldiers were treating his friends and family and the strangling policies of settlement expansion made me feel something I never thought I would: understanding how someone could come to the point under such conditions that they feel they have no hope left but to strike back in a violent act of utter desperation at their oppressors. I came by this book from a friend of a friend and will be buying and passing along copies to others. Anyone who cares about injustice should read this.
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