Reviews for I Remember Chesterfield

The average rating for I Remember Chesterfield based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-20 00:00:00 Ryan Carey I used to be an ideological Zionist,but since I gave up entirely on Islamophobia,I am able to see the other side of the conflict! I have always blvd in reading both sides but tbh I was very indifferent to the Palestinian side coz of my ideological blindness and prejudice.. However,this book is one of a kind,an eye opener,written by an amazing Jewish American woman Anna Baltzer,I saw her lecture on her time in West Bank and got this book... Women have a much better way to empathize and tell a story,of a narrative,its one stereotype about women I don't want to dispute..And in fact,am proud of.. So I am starting to read this book..It seems amazing,unfortunately available only in paperback format and not in kindle..It's very beautifully written,with a lot and lot of pictures,probably the single best picture journal you'll ever read on Israel vs Palestine conflict!Her language is highly impersonal and passionate,no matter how your views might be vis a vis the conflict,this book is one book that should be read everybody who isn't a blind Islamophobe(I speak from my own experience as one former Islamophobe my self!) The format of the book is very unique and interesting!Naturally you can tell that this book is written by someone with very visual and artistic kind of brain!It tells countless tragic stories one after another,and without demonizing Israelis and even Zionism..Although she is clearly involved in the BDS campaign against Israel,she doesn't get carried away the way many pro Palestine activists do (Max Blumenthal and Rania Khalek and their little Hamas gang for example,who veer off to the deep end and indulge in blatant antisemitism,those would be the red lines for me personally!) but this is a book by someone who won't demonize one side to make the case for the other..I also highly recommend you Anna's lectures on the conflict,which are available on Youtube, It's titled "Anna Baltzer:Life in Occupied Palestine " The Link: This is the lecture that made me buy this book,I of course do not support BDS one bit,which is being supported by Antisemites of all hues and the likes of David Dukes and Hamasniks,but if you want to understand he conflict better,this book along with other book written by Pamela Olson called 'Fast time in Palestine' remain must read books! (Will update a much detailed review once I am done reading the book)

Review # 2 was written on 2009-05-26 00:00:00 Pat Hazelton I was only going to give it 3 or 4-stars, then I realized I was rating my own feelings, rather than the book. Before reading it, I thought there was a solution to the problem, hard to negotiate, sure, and probably not in the near future, but some sort of peaceful and mutually respectful resolution. (Didn't South-Africa?) I don't see it anymore, neither one state nor two. How she can conclude that " peace is just waiting to break through the mutually destructive occupation" is to me un-understandable: it took 28 years for the Berlin wall to come tumbling down, and it was not built to augment East Berlin's land and water resources; furthermore, there was no distrust between West- and East-Germans, only between their allies, the US and Russia. It breaks my heart to see the Palestinian people constantly shooting themselves in the foot, making all the wrong choices, and condemning themselves to fourth-world poverty; it breaks my heart to see the Jewish people whose courage and determination I admire so much, behave like a 19th century colonial power. Baltzer wrote this book with her heart, and that's how you should read it: try to forget you have an opinion, and empathize. I only wish you won't find it as depressing as I did.