The Thinking Heart: Essays on Israel and Palestine by David Grossman

Searing essays from International Booker Prize-winning Israeli author and long-time peace activist David Grossman carry us up to and through the cataclysm of Oct 7th and what followed We know David Grossman's voice of ringing moral clarity from way back: since the late 1980s and The Yellow Wind, his classic work on the urgency of the two-state solution and the price paid by both occupier and occupied, he has been criticizing his country's government and pushing for paths to a lasting peace. Just after October 7th, 2023, he retreated inwards to ask himself anew these difficult and necessary questions about his beloved nation:How could this massacre have happened?How could the Netanyahu government, tangled in its web of scandals, have failed to protect its citizens?And did October 7 and the war that followed take with it the last hope of a two-state solution?In these eleven essays, which appeared in newspapers and journals at key moments when Grossman wanted to hold the government to acc