Checkpoints and Chances: Eyewitness Accounts from an Observer in Israel - Palestine - Softcover

Katharine Von Schubert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852453663 ISBN 13: 9780852453667

Publisher: Quaker Books, 2005

Synopsis

This book is a compilation of letters which the author wrote during a two year period from Bethlehem and Jerusalem. She describes her encounters with ordinary and extraordinary Israelis and Palestinians who are caught up in the conflict.
What does it feel like to be the parent of a suicide bomber? To be a Palestinian suspected of collaboration? To have your home demolished for no sensible reason? To be the mother of small children trapped indoors for days on end in a curfew? Katharine finds out and then tells us in these letters.

About this title

From the Publisher

Katharine von Schubert went to the West Bank in October 2002 as a volunteer international observer based in Bethlehem for Quaker Peace & Social Witness, and continued working in Jerusalam until September 2004. There are her luminous reports of being with people under military occupation, as they struggle with curfews, checkpoints and sudden losses of home and livelihood.

Synopsis

Katharine von Schubert went to the West Bank in October 2002 as a volunteer international observer based in Bethlehem for Quaker Peace and Social Witness, and she continued in Jerusalem with another organisation to September 2004. These are her luminous reports of being with people who live under military occupation, as they struggle with curfews, checkpoints, and sudden losses of home and livelihood.

Edition details

• Publisher: Quaker Books
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0852453663
• ISBN 13: 9780852453667
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128