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"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...

"The last rain of the season had fallen on these hills in early April. As expected, everything was dry, except for some succulents and the poterium thorn we call natsh, which covered the ground around the grey limestone rocks." * Inhalt Seit mehr als fünfundzwanzig Jahren erwandert der bekannte Schriftsteller und Menschenrechtsanwalt Raja Shehadeh seine Heimat Palästina. Er tut dies allein oder mit Freunden, zu allen Jahreszeiten, immer dann, wenn er Zeit hat und Ruhe finden will. Doch die Landschaft, die Shehadeh durchstreift, verschwindet mehr und mehr. Mauern, Sperrgebiete und Checkpoints zerschneiden heute die Berge und Felder Palästinas. In sechs Wanderungen führt Shehadeh den Leser auf eine Reise durch die Geschichte und die Schönheit des Landstrichs zwischen Jerusalem und dem Toten Meer ( Quelle ).