{"id":636,"date":"2010-05-04T17:21:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T23:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2010-05-04T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T23:37:21","slug":"the-yellow-wind-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"The Yellow Wind, again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I first read David Grossman’s The Yellow Wind<\/a> a little over a year ago.\u00a0 See brief comments here<\/a>.\u00a0 Now we’re discussing it in our book club at work this month, so I’m back.\u00a0 It’s still a well-written book, filled with very disturbing stories about life in Palestine under Israeli occupation.\u00a0 The author<\/a>, already a respected novelist in the 1980’s, spent seven weeks in Palestine in the late 1980’s and based the stories on interviews and experiences from that period.\u00a0 The book was originally published in 1988 and has an Afterword from 2002.\u00a0\u00a0 The stories are grim and do not cast a very good light on either the Palestinians or the Israelis.\u00a0\u00a0 The book was a plea to his Israeli countrymen, asking them to consider the price they were having to pay (in terms of their culture, their honor, their souls, their state….) to keep treating the Palestinians like that.<\/p>\n

Reading the book more than twenty years after the original 7-week foray into Palestine, I wonder what Grossman would find if he went back to those villages and settlements and refugee camps today, and how he would write about it today?<\/p>\n

Grossman is still writing (essays and novels) and is an activist.\u00a0 He gave this speech<\/a> to Israel on Rabin Memorial Day in 2006, just a few months after his son Uri was killed in battle in the Lebanon War.\u00a0\u00a0 He was interviewed<\/a> at the University of California, recorded shortly after the inauguration of President Obama.\u00a0 And he protested just last month<\/a> at Sheikh Jarrah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first read David Grossman’s The Yellow Wind a little over a year ago. See brief comments here. Now we’re discussing it in our book club at work this month, so I’m back. It’s still a well-written book, filled with very disturbing stories about life in Palestine under Israeli occupation. The author, already a respected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[36,13,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636"}],"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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}