Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel

Based on conversations with Palestinians in Israel David Grossmans Sleeping on a Wire like The Yellow Wind is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the Middle East today.. Israel describes itself as a Jewish state. What then is the status of the one-fifth of its citizens who are not Jewish? Are they Israelis or are they Palestinians? Or are they a people without a country? How will a Palestinian state―if it is established―influence the sense of belonging and identity of Palestinian Israeli citizens? . No other Israeli writer so far has approached this touchy subject with such compassion or looked at it with so to speak bifocal eyes Israeli and Palestinian. --Amos Elon The New York Review of Books