A review by hades9stages
Language of War, Language of Peace: Palestine, Israel and the Search for Justice by Raja Shehadeh

5.0

an outstandingly written book. many non fiction books about conflict and genocide usually, to me, read like they are just news articles copied and pasted together, statistics rolling out constantly and an endless stream of acronyms and names of people you pretend to remember (but you usually don’t know who they’re talking about). perhaps that’s fine for somebody very educated on a matter, but for the large majority of people who want to educate themselves about injustice and zionism, you end up spending more time focusing on names and statistics which takes away from the experience we actually intended on having.

i didn’t have that experience with this book, and i can say that it was just as, or even more informative than many other books that i have read, that are supposed to be like this one. the reader is constantly kept up to date with straight to the point statements, while at the same time everything is covered thoroughly from 1948 onwards.

thank you for this book