{"id":315,"date":"2009-04-13T08:18:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2009-04-13T08:20:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T14:20:06","slug":"the-yellow-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"The Yellow Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Grossman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312420986?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=relaxandhavef-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0312420986\">The Yellow Wind: With a New Afterword by the Author<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=relaxandhavef-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0312420986\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> is a series of short reports on life in the West Bank in the late 1980&#8217;s.\u00a0\u00a0 The author is an Israeli novelist who spent seven weeks in the West Bank interviewing Palestinians and Israelis.\u00a0 I read the book on a break between histories to try to learn a little about the Palestinians in the West Bank.\u00a0 The book is just as much about the Israelis though, and specifically about the author&#8217;s views on the effects of the West Bank on Israel.\u00a0 The stories are tragic, every one of them.\u00a0 Whether about the squalid conditions in a Palestinian kindergarten where the children hate Jews or a Jewish settlement where the Israelis hate Arabs, every story is disturbing.\u00a0\u00a0 I got ahead of myself in my history reading by jumping to this book, so I&#8217;ll refrain from any other comments.\u00a0 Here is a <a title=\"critical review\" href=\"http:\/\/findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1282\/is_n9_v40\/ai_6672847\/\" target=\"_blank\">critical review<\/a> of the title and <a title=\"review with author details\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wrmea.com\/backissues\/1188\/8811034.htm\" target=\"_blank\">one<\/a> that more thoroughly describes the author&#8217;s motivations and conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Grossman&#8217;s The Yellow Wind: With a New Afterword by the Author is a series of short reports on life in the West Bank in the late 1980&#8217;s. The author is an Israeli novelist who spent seven weeks in the West Bank interviewing Palestinians and Israelis. I read the book on a break between histories [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[36,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}