Khadra’s depictions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict shed light on a brutally, longstanding contention between two cultures with no end in sight. The disharmony within this sector of the world has been an international battle of choosing sides and allies, but more importantly it has been the cause of violent slaughter for thousands. This fictional literary piece can be used as a vehicle to bring its audience into a state of understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for what it truly is. Because this conflict over land is between two opposing cultures, backed by two opposing religions, a resolution seems to be far fetched. Khadra allows the reader to understand the history between the two parties, better revealing why these two cultures resort to fighting one
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This initially left 750,000 Palestinians to be refugees (Kimmerling), which can be directly named as a cause for tension and furthering the bad blood between the two cultures. Khadra uses his depictions to show what many spectators see as a being futile battle, as a more legitimate cause where the two cultures feel that each has wronged the other and it begins here. The bloodshed and destruction comes from both sides, and that is specifically depicted within the novel from the start. Khadra vividly describes an Israeli attack on an Arab sheik that is nothing short of graphic, paralleled with a Palestinian suicide bombing later in the book. While these particular stories are fictitious, the acts themselves are no rarity in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the impacts only escalate the hatred between these groups of people. The novel shows the lack of tolerance and the decaying of civility between the two groups as situations such as these unfold, outside of the literary piece this is the problem that lies beneath it all, the two cultures focus only the hate and hurt that have come from one
This initially left 750,000 Palestinians to be refugees (Kimmerling), which can be directly named as a cause for tension and furthering the bad blood between the two cultures. Khadra uses his depictions to show what many spectators see as a being futile battle, as a more legitimate cause where the two cultures feel that each has wronged the other and it begins here. The bloodshed and destruction comes from both sides, and that is specifically depicted within the novel from the start. Khadra vividly describes an Israeli attack on an Arab sheik that is nothing short of graphic, paralleled with a Palestinian suicide bombing later in the book. While these particular stories are fictitious, the acts themselves are no rarity in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the impacts only escalate the hatred between these groups of people. The novel shows the lack of tolerance and the decaying of civility between the two groups as situations such as these unfold, outside of the literary piece this is the problem that lies beneath it all, the two cultures focus only the hate and hurt that have come from one