The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide

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Susan Nathan. The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide

SUSAN NATHAN. The Other Side of Israel

Table of Contents

1 The Road to Tamra

2 Death of a Love Affair

3 Second-Class Citizens

4 Echoes of Apartheid

5 The Missing Left

6 A Traumatised Society

7 Where Next?

Glossary. By JONATHAN COOK

Sources

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Praise

Copyright

About the Publisher

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MY JOURNEY ACROSS

THE JEWISH-ARAB DIVIDE

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According to Hajji, the first refugees into Tamra were sheltered in the homes of the existing inhabitants. But soon the town was being overwhelmed: hundreds of Palestinians arrived from the destroyed villages of Damun, Ein Hod, Balad al-Sheikh, Haditha and Mi’ar. The early warm welcome turned much colder. Most of the new arrivals fell under the responsibility of the Red Cross, who housed them in tents, but after a few years the international community passed responsibility for the internal refugees’ fate back to Israel. It was some fifteen years before the last tents were gone, recalls Hajji, as many people were reluctant to give up the hope that one day they would be able to return to their original homes.

Stripped of all their possessions, the refugee families had to work and save money to buy land from the original inhabitants of Tamra, so that they could turn their fabric homes into concrete ones. That fact alone goes a long way to explaining the unplanned, chaotic geography of Tamra and other Israeli Arab communities. The roads, originally designed for the horse and cart, were simply diverted around the maze of ‘concrete tents’.

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