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As new condition dark gray boards, brown spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Shmuel HaNagid, "The Prison"; Author's Note; Acknowledgments and A Note About the Author. Signed by the author with black Sharpie/marker at the middle of the full title page. "Jeffrey Goldberg has done the impossible -- found some hope in the rubble of the Middle East. Prisoners will bring you to tears." -- Malcolm Gladwell. "Jeffrey Goldberg's brilliant journey of self-discovery carries his reader crashing through barriers of old, facile assumptions about the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. He manages the near-impossible task of proclaiming his Zionism while embracing some dreams of Palestinian nationalism without sacrificing good humor, great reporting, and wonderful storytelling." -- Ted Koppel. "This brutal, beautiful book about the discovery of decency in an indecent war is morally refreshing. With vivacious candor . Goldberg describes the unexpected refinement of his identity by an encounter with his enemy. -- Leon Wieseltier. ". brilliant -- at once a memoir of a young man's spiritual and political education, and a lucid and perceptive account of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. The story of Goldberg's evolution from Long Island Zionist to Israeli prison guard to hardened but hopeful observer is both an enducation and a delight." -- Jeffrey Toobin. "Jeffrey Goldberg has written an important book about his struggle as an American Jew to discover roots of common humanity buried in centuries of hatred in the Middle East." -- Mark Bowden. "They met in 1990 during the first Palestinian uprising -- one an American Jew who served as a guard in the largests prison in Israel, the other his prisoner Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Despite their fears and prejudices, they began a dialogue there that grew into a remarkable friendship -- and now a remarkable book. It is a book that confronts head-on the issues dividing the Middle East, but one that also shines a ray of hope on that dark, embattled region. Jeffrey Goldberg, now an award-winning correspondent . moved to Israel while still a college student. When he arrived, there was already a war in his heart -- a war between the magnetic pull of tribe and the equally determined pull of the universalist ideal. He saw the conflict between the Jews and Arabs as the essence of tragedy, because tragedy is born not in the collision of right and wrong, but of right and right. Soon, as a military policeman in the Israeli army, he was sent to the Ketziot prison camp, a barbed-wire city of tents and machine gun towers buried deep in the Negev Desert. Ketzoit held six thousand Arabs, the flower of the Intifada: its rock-throwers, knifemen, bomb-makers, and propagandists. He realized that this was an extraordinary opportunity to learn from them about themselves, especially because among the prisoners may have been the future leaders of Palestine. Prisoners is an account of life in that harsh desert prison -- mean, overcrowded, and violent -- and of Goldberg's extraordinary dialogue with Rafiq, which continues to this day. We hear their accusations, explanations, fears, prejudices, and aspirations. We see how their relationship deepened over the years as Goldberg returned to Washington, D.C., where Rafiq, quite coincidentally, had become a graduate student, and as the Middle East cycled through periods of soaring hope and ceaseless despair. And we see again and again how these two men -- both of them loyal sons of their warring peoples -- confront their religous, cultral, and political differences in ways that allowed them to finally acknowledge a true, if necessarily tenuous, friendship. A riveting, deeply affecting book: spare, impassioned, energetic, and unstinting in its candor about the truths that lie buried within the animosities of the Middle East." -- from the dust jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007155
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