I’ve come to believe that often the best way both to explain and to understand something is through the telling of a story, preferably a true story (tho ‘truth’ is not always clear and often there are many ‘truths’ about a particular subject).
All of that is by way of introduction to a film and a book, both about Israel, the West Bank, and primarily Arab inhabitants of the area.
Of the two, the film is by far the most powerful and the most authentic as it is the ‘truth’ as seen through the camera of one of its co-directors/authors. The book, while engaging, has more problems than the film, but it’s also worth the time to read.
