What Does Israel Fear from Palestine?

An attempt to understand Israeli actions in Gaza, and a lament that the Palestinian story is still not properly heard ... [Shehadeh's] searching analysis offers insights for readers coming new to the situation and others who wish to face it afresh -- 'Book of the Day' * Guardian *
A slim, powerful work ... details the devastating consequences of the siege [of Gaza] * New Statesman *
Measured, lawyerly but always very readable... As the book comes to a close, as if summoning a last reserve of strength, [Shehadeh] manages a message of hope. Perhaps, he writes, the utter nightmarishness of the past few months may achieve what decades of war and negotiation have failed to resolve: a lasting peace * Observer *
Elegantly written ... suffused with anger without descending into bitterness * Irish Times *
An exceptionally lucid account of the underlying causes of the war in Gaza ... [Shehadeh] writes with so much humanity, recounting the story with neither rancour nor despair. This book will be particularly valuable for political education. Highly recommended all round. * Morning Star *
Praise for Raja Shehadeh: In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, his self-questioning and insistence on focusing on the experience of the individual within the storms of nationalist myth and hubris, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi * New York Times *
A buoy in a sea of bleakness -- Rachel Kushner
Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy and wise -- Colm Tóibín
Palestine's greatest prose writer * Observer *
Luminously clear-sighted ... By turns lyrical, witty and shrewd, Shehadeh is an excellent companion * Prospect *