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Still Waiting for the Dawn: An Autobiography
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by Secker & Warburg
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An interesting memoir and political discussion by an Israeli Arab Christian (albeit secularised) journalist, writing in the early 1970s. Reading the book in 2009 is a bit depressing, as Mansour writes that he is hopeful of a peace deal soon, along with withdrawal from the West Bank. The West Bank settlements, the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and the rise of Hamas and Hizbollah, at this point are nightmares not even imagined.
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Atallah Mansour is a veteran Israeli author who is a Palestinian Christian. He was 14 years old when his country changed its name from Palestine to Israel. His family was lucky not to turn refugees like most of the Palestinians, but had to suffer a bitter treatment ; a mixture of revenge and suspicion at the hands of Jewish survivors from brutal German Nazi criminals.
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