Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-428) and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE -- 1.Mixed Company in Jaffa and Tel Aviv -- 2.On a Kibbutz in the Negev -- 3.A View from Jerusalem -- 4.Odd Laws in a Divided City -- Map -- 5.From Ancient Acre to Newish Ashkelon -- 6.The Crater of Makhtesh Ramon -- 7.Finding Balata -- PART TWO -- 8.The Friendliness of Nablus -- 9.Surrounded by Settlements -- 10.The Griefs of Occupation -- 11.Bethlehem Besieged -- 12.Too Many Prisoners -- 13.Ramallah: A Substitute Capital -- 14.A Minor Injury -- 15.The Malevolent Barrier -- 16.Preparing to Move on -- 17.Arrival in Hebron -- 18.The Two Faces of Purim -- 19.Into the Hebron Hills -- 20.What Goes on in the Jordan Valley? -- 21.Here and There in Jerusalem -- PART THREE -- 22.Impressions of Yad Vashem -- 23.Polite Settlers and Traumatised Conscripts -- 24.The Complexities of Safed -- 25.Harrowed Again by the Barrier.

In cramped Haifa high-rises, in homes in the settlements and in a refugee camp on the West Bank, she talks with whomever she meets, trying to understand them and their attitudes with her customary curiosity, her acute ear and mind, her empathy, her openness to the experience and her moral seriousness. Behind the book lies a desire to communicate the reality of life on the ground, and to puzzle out for herself what might be done to alleviate the suffering of all who wish to share this land and to make peace in the region a possibility.