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What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist who Tried to Kill Your Wife?: A Memoir by [Harris-Gershon, David]

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David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Then, in the midst of a historic cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians, a bomb shrieked through Hebrew University’s cafeteria. Jamie was hurled across the room, her body burned and sliced with shrapnel; the friends sitting next to her were instantly killed. David was desperate for answers—why now? why here? why my wife? But when a doctor handed him some shrapnel removed from Jamie’s body, he refused to accept that this bit of metal made him “one of us”—another traumatized victim who would never be able to move on. Instead, he dug into Israeli government records to uncover what triggered the attack, then returned to East Jerusalem to meet the terrorist and his family.

Part memoir, part political thriller, part exposé of the conduct of the peace process, this fearless debut confronts the personal costs of the Middle East conflict—and reveals the human capacity for recovery and reconciliation, no matter the circumstance.

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File Size: 777 KB
Print Length: 346 pages
Publisher: Oneworld Publications (August 1, 2013)
Publication Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
ASIN: B00E3DXA16
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A Riveting Memoir by David Harris Gershon

September 8, 2013

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In 2002, while her husband ate lunch at home, Jamie Harris Gershon was seriously injured when a bomb exploded in a cafeteria at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where they were graduate students. The friends she was sitting with were killed; she survived because she was reaching under the table to get something out of her pack. She suffered burns over 30% of her body, and a nut, distorted by the force of the explosion, was lodged in her small intestine. After this was removed surgically, a doctor gave it to David, who kept it.

After this life-changing experience, David took on the role of strong, loving spouse. His own emotions were put away; after all, he was not the one injured in the bombing, how could his feelings matter? When Jamie was healed enough, the couple left Israel and started a life in Washington DC and a family. Jamie used therapy to deal with her trauma, and was helped to heal. David found therapy unhelpful (though it helped with some of his physical symptoms).

His healing began when he read that the bomber, now in an Israeli prison, had expressed remorse. He was unable to process this information; Palestinians were the enemy, they were evil, the "other," not people who could feel remorse. This began a journey, both emotionally and literally, that would take him through a course of study of the history of Israel and Palestine, of the process of truth and reconciliation in South Africa, of the decision to go to grad school to write a book about his experience, and ultimately to the home of the bomber's family.

David's writing is taut and clear, the kind of writing that can keep you up all night, as it did me as I neared the end. It is brave; I found myself wondering how he could so openly explain his process, his learning about different realities and finally about himself. He is as clear about his denial as he later is about his process of recovery from trauma, which he was able to see as his trauma as well as Jamie's.

You will learn much from this book about the middle east, about South Africa, about PTSD, about love, about a man's journey to wholeness. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.

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Great Read about Healing & Reconciliation & Forgiveness. Don't Miss It!

February 14, 2016

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Marvelous! It read like a novel - easy! The last chapters of the book made the greatest impact. This is really a story about Healing. It's about Reconciliation with the "other" and with that comes Forgiveness. Forgiveness does not necessarily equate with "understanding," though that can and often happens. The main thing is that Forgiveness Frees. Period. It cuts the cord between the perpetrator and the victim. What a load off! Each is set free to continue their evolutionary development: emotionally, mentally, physically, and most definitely, spiritually. It is Necessary to "HEAR" the "other's" story. Everyone has one. We need to be good Listeners. If we did that all the time, there would be no grievances, bc no People of any country or faith would be ignored. We would know these "Others" are just like us and, as One species, we all have infinitely more in common than differences. We need to look for, and listen to, all the similarities while remembering those who continually point up the differences have selfish reasons - like War. It's extremely profitable. If anyone just wants an honest account of the Jewish/Palestinian conflict, get a copy of Side by Side. It is the ONLY way a History book should Ever be written: Both stories = the Whole and Truthful picture. It's the Only Way - anything less is the lopsided histories we were all given in schools - gov't approved education - it will always make "itself" look good, but that's never been the True history of any country.

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Joan L. Eisenstodt

First the style is so comfortable to read - the best

July 12, 2014

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It is strange to say I 'love' this book and yet I do. First the style is so comfortable to read - the best, albeit uncomfortable for the reader (and author) story-telling. One can feel the incidents that are recalled, or one can if one has empathy.

Mr. Harris-Gerhson has been asked to speak and then canceled in DC and elsewhere. Such brouhaha over the subject of reconciliation between a Jew and an Arab has been made. Over possible peace among peoples? Is it wrong to reconcile with others?

Reading the book, I want to sit down with Mr. Harris-Gershon and talk and learn and understand more. With the current horrors in Israel and Gaza, how can we - any of us - let this go on without considering the destruction of people and their homes and culture? Tho' I have never been comfortable with the taking of Palestinian lands, reading this book, with the research Mr. Harris-Gershon did about how the Palestinians lost their land, better understanding the Balfour Declaration, and thinking about my friends (Palestinian Americans) and my family (Israeli Jews), I cannot accept the hate and the rancor and the long history of hurt to each people. As I read more about the demoralizing of the Palestinians, I wondered: Where is the empathy that could have made this better? How would I have felt - as a Jew after the Holocaust coming to a land that was to be mine? as a Palestinian living on land that had been in my family for generations? How would I have reacted to someone taking over my home?

Read this book - relfect - wonder - and think of ways to bring about peace in these holy lands. We cannot continue what has been and could be for more years.

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