"Language of War, Language of Peace: Palestine, Israel and the Search for Justice" von Raja Shehadeh [Rezension]
"How odd, having separate roads for different ethnic groups, as well as different categories of land where different rules apply, and yet as I drove along I was fully aware of where I could and could not go, automatically taking the circuitous routes that confound the geography of the region." * Inhalt Award-winning author Raja Shehadeh explores the politics of language and the language of politics in the Israeli Palestine conflict, reflecting on the walls that they create - legal and cultural - that confine today's Palestinians just like the physical borders, checkpoints and the so called 'Separation Barrier'. The peace process has been ground to a halt by twists of language and linguistic chicanery that has degraded the word 'peace' itself. No one even knows what the word might mean now for the Middle East. So to give one example of many, Israel argued that the omission of the word 'the' in one of the UN Security Council's resolutions meant t