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My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story Paperback – February 9, 2010

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Gaza is the frontline in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and rarely out of the news, this book explores the daily lives of the people in the region, giving us an insight into what is at risk in each round of violence.

Ramzy Baroud tells his father's fascinating story. Driven out of his village to a refugee camp, he took up arms and fought the occupation at the same time raising a family and trying to do the best for his children. Baroud's vivid and honest account reveals the complex human beings; revolutionaries, great moms and dads, lovers, and comedians that make Gaza so much more than just a disputed territory.

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232 pages
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English
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Pluto Press
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February 9, 2010
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5.91 x 0.7 x 9.06 inches
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0745328814
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"Ramzy Baroud's sensitive, thoughtful, searching writing penetrates to the core of moral dilemmas that their intended audiences evade at their peril. Few are spared his perceptive eye, and only the morally callous will fail to respond to his pleas to look into the mirror honestly, to question comforting beliefs that protect us from facing our elementary responsibilities, and to act to remedy the terrible misery and injustice that he exposes to our view, as we surely can." -- Noam Chomsky

About the Author

Ramzy Baroud is a syndicated columnist, veteran journalist and Editor-in-Chief of PalestineChronicle.com. He has appeared on numerous television programs including CNN International, BBC, ABC Australia, National Public Radio and Al-Jazeera. His previous books include Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion (2003) and The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto, 2006).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pluto Press; Illustrated edition (February 9, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0745328814
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0745328812
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.91 x 0.7 x 9.06 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #470,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #316 in Islamic Social Studies
- #393 in Political Advocacy Books
- #583 in Israel & Palestine History (Books)

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Hayekian

Excellent

Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2016

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This book is an important contribution. Lots of important bits of history which is made the more relevant as narrated by the people who were most impacted by it.

Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2019

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Very well written book. Enjoyed the read from a different perspective.

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Carol B.

An excellent book, making one understand what happened in the ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2016

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An excellent book, making one understand what happened in the Nakba and the refugee camps in Gaza. If you want to understand the Palestinians I certainly recommend this wonderful book.

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Didia

Ramzy Baroud provides an excellent narrative that is a must read for anyone interested ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2016

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Ramzy Baroud provides an excellent narrative that is a must read for anyone interested in Palestine and the injustice the people must endure.

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Desertwriter

Gaza's Untold Story

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2010

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Though I've only begun reading this new release a few days ago, one feels as if he's walking with this author thru time and history --thru the memories of his grandfathers and extended family eyes..during the Ottoman Empire's end and British Mandate's rule, transitioning from one form of oppression to the next until the time when their neighbors in nearby villages with whom they'd shared meals, had doctor visits become the hunters, expelling /clearing villages from the Gazan district turning friends into homeless landless refugees. Westerners hear little and know less about Gaza than any other part of Palestine but it is so central to all key issues of peace, war and negotiation. Daily accounts of bombings of an encaged people from daily paper becomes personal to the reader when experienced so intimately in this family of several generations in the Strip. Absolute must read this compelling account.

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SQ132

A Palestinian Son

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2010

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Ramzy Baroud grips the heart from the very beginning of this book. Through the prose, I saw Baroud's father, felt the sorrow of his fate as a refugee - an intelligent, compassionate man and father who had everything taken from him, including his ability to protect and provide for his family for the single reason that he was a non-Jewish native of Palestine. I felt Ramzy's shame at leaving his family behind even though it was his only choice if he hoped to get an education and live the life he and his father had wanted for him.
My Father Was a Freedom Fighter is at once a history of Palestine and the story of one proud family, torn from its ancient roots and cast into oblivion to trod through the indignities of the refugee's life. It is at once an academic work of historic significance and a work of literary non-fiction. Baroud's historic accounts spring from meticulous research, and the story of his family is clearly poured from his heart.
This book is a must read for anyone who cares to understand the foundation of the Palestine-Israel conflict; for anyone who cares to see the genocide happening before our very eyes. There will come a day when our children and grandchildren will ask us what did we do while Palestine was being wiped off the map. As Dr Abu Sitta points out in the preface, no one can honestly say "I did not know".
Palestine lives through the words of people like Baroud and through the actions of so many of Palestine's sons and daughters, who, contrary to David Ben Gurion's prediction, have not forgotten.

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Mr. M. Griffin

My Father aws a freedom fighter

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2010

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My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story A book written with great passion and sensitivity. A really well-written and authoritative account of the harsh reality of life for the Palestinian people so brutally exiled from their homeland in 1948-49 at the hands of the Israeli military. It made me both sad and angry. A must-read for anyone wanting to understand the issues behind the Middle East conflict.
Mike Griffin

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nylensky

Great book.

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2010

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Very readable and full of history and facts. This book is all the more relevant since Israel killed 9 people on the freedom flotilla. This gives the Palestinian perspective on the whole issue while Israel remains intransigent.

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Germinal

A simple story, simply and movingly told. A great book that is set to be iconic.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2010

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I have the feeling, and I hope I am right, that `My Father was a Freedom Fighter' will become an iconic book regarding the Palestinian experience. For Ramzy Baroud's book encapsulates the Palestinian story.

It is a simple story that is simply and very movingly told.

`My Father was a Freedom Fighter' is the story of three generations of Palestinians, although it concentrates on the author's father of the middle generation, Mohammed, as the family recall their life in Mandate Palestine and are then ethnically cleansed from their village of Beit Daras to the refugee camps of Gaza - only a few miles, yet whole world, away.

We follow Mohammed as he tries to make a life and a living for himself and later his family as he lives with Bedouin in Sinai for a while, serves in the Egyptian army, the Palestinian National Army, as a street hawker in Saudi Arabia, a labourer in Israel and a merchant of reject textiles in Gaza. We see the lives, the loves, the loss, the despair but above all the resilience of ordinary Palestinian refugees.

The Palestinian tragedy is encapsulated at the end, when Mohammed, suffering from chronic asthma, having sold his house to buy medicine, dies without his family there due to the fact they are dispersed across the globe but also within Palestine where, due to Israel's blockade, Mohammed never gets to see his grandchildren some of whom are only a few miles away in the West Bank.

All through this personal, family biography, Baroud weaves the history and the politics of the Palestinian struggle and experience with the Zionist behemoth that squats on their land, attempts to suffocate them and kills them on a daily basis. If you want a succinct version of the Palestine/Israel conflict and want to see it in human terms, the terms of the victims, this is it.

This is a great book. Buy it. Read it. Tell others about it. Get others to read it. And get angry.

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E. M. Barratt

Thorough, searing masterpiece.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2011

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My Father Was A Freedom Fighter is a searing little masterpiece that is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the situation in Palestine.

Set alongside the personal tale of his father's and grandfather's lives Baroud presents a thorough and meticulously referenced history of the Gaza Strip from the days of the British mandate to the time of his father's death during the second intifada. This isn't the scholarly history-from-a-distance as told by Avi Shlaim in his equally thorough but somewhat impersonal (in places) Israel and Palestine, this is a history book written by a man whose country's history is his people's history is his family's history. Thus Baroud describes the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba, the occupation of the 1967 war, the injustices of occupation and the machinations of Gazan politics in the same clean efficient prose which he uses to describe the lighter moments of his father's courtship of his mother, of his wheeling and dealing money making schemes and of his own childhood, of the fear and the adventure of life as a teenage boy during the first intifada. The prose is efficient but never stark, emotion is barely restrained and Baroud's lightness of touch allows the true import of events he recalls to sting as he tells them to you. The personal tales will make you laugh and will break your heart. The larger historical facts will make you rage. Baroud does not attempt to make this a 'non-biased' history of Israeli-Arab interactions, but he does this not as a conscious editorial decision, he simply writes what he knows. My Father Was A Freedom Fighter is simply the history of Gaza and the story of his family told as it was.

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foeser

A vital Palestinian viewpoint

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 14, 2012

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This is not a sparkling piece of English which is a pity as the content is deeply absorbing. Baroud can, I know, do better!
The book is special because it feelingly presents a history of the dispossessed often in graphic form, always engaging, deeply moving. I was apalled by the suffering, the worldwide lack of engagement and the nobility of Palestinians' dreams.
The media would represent Baroud's father as a terrorist. A "freedom fighter" he most certaily was - dignified, civilised and admirable. So much for the misused term, "Terrorist". Our turning a blind eye on the Palestinian situation is unjustified and shameful.

3 people found this helpful

Joyce

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2018

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An important book in relation to the historical context of the situation in Israel/Gaza well written.

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MRS M M ADAMS

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2014

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Excellent

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