In Sleeping on
a Wire, Israeli writer David Grossman takes on the complicated task of
sorting through the complex historical, psychological, and political situation
of Israeli Arabs. That is, Arabs who are
Israeli citizens.
Even the term Israeli
Arab is a trigger for debate. In this book Grossman
uses the term Palestinian Arab far more often, showing just how complex the
relationship of Israeli’s largest minority (about 20 percent of the population)
is to the Jewish majority.
Just as in his book on the territories The Yellow Wind, where Grossman examines
the problem of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, in Sleeping on a Wire Grossman is unsparing
in his treatment of the situation of Arab Israeli citizens. He interviews, he examines and analyzes,
leaving us with a book that reaches no easy solution to a complex problem.
Rather, the book is a mirror of the problem itself. A signpost, so to speak, showing us where
reality lay, and how hard it is to ignore.
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