The Arab-Israeli conflict has for too long been seen as a simple tale of right versus wrong, good versus evil or, since the 1967 War, the strong versus the weak. This original account from an author outside the fray shows that the conflict ranges beyond Jew versus Arab, and shatters a series of myths surrounding the conflict itself.  These include assumptions about how the assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, affected later events, and the notion that the Palestinian Authority president, Yasser Arafat, alone rejected a peace agreement with Israel in 2000 that would have ended the conflict. 

View this intractable dilemma from only one perspective simply generates further propaganda for whichever side.  This book provides a full grasp of the issues which drive the conflict, including the attempts by the United States to broker a settlement.

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“View from the Fence” was shortlisted for the 2006 Jewish Quarterly / Wingate Literary Prizes for fiction and non-fiction.