Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning writer of Like Dreamers directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors within this taut and provocative book, empathizing with Palestinian suffering and longing for reconciliation as he explores how the conflict looks through Israeli eye.

I contact you ‘neighbor’ because I don’t know your name, or anything personal about you. Provided our situations, ‘neighbor’ might be too about Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor casual a word to spell it out our relationship. We are intruders into each other’s wish, violators of every other’s feeling of home. We are incarnations of every other’s worst historic nightmares. Neighbors?

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is a single Israeli’s powerful try to reach beyond the wall structure that separates Israelis and Palestinians and in to the hearts of ‘the enemy.’ In some letters, Yossi Klein Halevi explains what motivated him to keep his native New York in his twenties and move to Israel to take part in the play from the renewal of a Jewish homeland, which he’s committed to see succeed being a morally accountable, democratic state in the centre East.

This is actually the first attempt by an Israeli author to directly address his Palestinian neighbors and describe how the conflict appears through Israeli eyes. Halevi untangles the ideological and psychological knot which has defined the conflict for pretty much a hundred years. In lyrical, evocative language, he unravels the complicated strands of faith, satisfaction, anger and anguish he feels like a Jew living in Israel, using history and personal encounter as his information.

Halevi’s words speak not only to his Palestinian neighbor, but to all concerned global citizens, helping us understand the painful options confronting Israelis and Palestinians that will eventually help determine the fate of the region.