Summary of Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 In July of 1967, Bashir Khairi and his cousins left Ramallah and arrived in East Jerusalem. They had asked their friends and neighbors how to navigate the new Israeli reality. Which bus should they take. How much is a ticket. How do they buy tickets. Will anyone check their papers if they board a bus.
#2 The young woman sat alone at the kitchen table. Sunlight streamed in through the south-facing windows of the stone house. The air raid sirens had finally fallen silent, and life in Dalia’s hometown of Ramla seemed to have returned to normal.
#3 The bus driver downshifted to descend the hills west of Jerusalem. Bashir was unsure if he wanted the trip to go quickly or slowly. If it went quickly, he would be in al-Ramla sooner; but if time slowed down, he could more fully take in each bend, each landmark, and each piece of his own history.
#4 Dalia, as a child, had wondered why the Arabs would willingly leave such a beautiful house. As she got older, she realized that the Arabs had fled like cowards, with their hot soup still steaming on the table.

Sujets

• Religion
• Israel
• Asia
• Général
• Jérusalem

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669375081
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In July of 1967, Bashir Khairi and his cousins left Ramallah and arrived in East Jerusalem. They had asked their friends and neighbors how to navigate the new Israeli reality. Which bus should they take. How much is a ticket. How do they buy tickets. Will anyone check their papers if they board a bus.

#2

The young woman sat alone at the kitchen table. Sunlight streamed in through the south-facing windows of the stone house. The air raid sirens had finally fallen silent, and life in Dalia’s hometown of Ramla seemed to have returned to normal.

#3

The bus driver downshifted to descend the hills west of Jerusalem. Bashir was unsure if he wanted the trip to go quickly or slowly. If it went quickly, he would be in al-Ramla sooner; but if time slowed down, he could more fully take in each bend, each landmark, and each piece of his own history.

#4

Dalia, as a child, had wondered why the Arabs would willingly leave such a beautiful house. As she got older, she realized that the Arabs had fled like cowards, with their hot soup still steaming on the table.

#5

The three men emerged from the bus into a hot, glaring world that was at once bizarre and familiar. They walked towards Yasser’s house, and as they got closer, they realized it was the house they used to play in as children.

#6

After the funeral, Bashir and his cousins went to visit Yasser's house. They couldn't remember where it was, so they walked in circles in the heat. Eventually, Bashir found the house.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 1936, Ahmad Khairi was building a house in al-Ramla, an Arab town on the coastal plain between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean. The soil was good here, and the Khairis grew hundreds of tons of barley, wheat, cabbage, cucumber, tomato, figs, grapes, and melons.

#2

The British had arrived in 1917, and had authorized a Jewish agency to help develop public works, utilities, and natural resources in Palestine. In recent years, Jewish immigration to Palestine had driven the Arabs and the British further apart.

#3

Al-Ramla was a town in Palestine that was founded in 715 AD by the Muslim caliph Suleiman Ibn Abdel-Malek. It was a stopover for camel caravans carrying leather, swords, buckets, and walnuts. It became a colonial office for a subcommissioner dispatched from London in the 1930s.

#4

In 1936, the Khairi family moved into their new house. It was a secure house on land that had been theirs for generations, but the reality of daily life in Palestine was tempered by the fact that their homeland was in the middle of a full-scale rebellion.

#5

The Great Arab Rebellion had erupted the previous fall, when an Arab nationalist named Sheikh Izzadin al-Qassam took to the hills near Jenin in northern Palestine with a small band of rebels. The British suspected al-Qassam’s band of causing two firebomb deaths at a kibbutz and other killings.

#6

In 1936, the entire Khairi clan, along with the rest of al-Ramla, prepared for the annual festival of Nabi Saleh. Despite the rebellion and the British crackdown, thousands of Arabs came from across Palestine to honor this early miracle-working prophet who foretold the coming of the Prophet Mohammad.

#7

In al-Ramla, the Khairi family continued their normal lives, with the exception of Ahmad, who was waiting for his son. Meanwhile, the local rebels were pressuring the mayor to support the insurgency.

#8

In 1936, a relative calm had settled on Palestine. The Arab Higher Committee had suspended its general strike and rebellion in response to a British promise to investigate the underlying causes of the conflict. Lord Peel, the former secretary of state for colonial India, arrived from London dressed in a top hat and tails. He was to direct the parliamentary commission of inquiry, but he seemed baffled by the Arab fear of Jewish domination.

#9

The Peel Commission’s plan was to transfer the Arabs, a concept that had been promoted by fellow Zionists for decades. The Arabs were shocked by the proposal, and the Arab Rebellion erupted in 1937 when British commissioners were assassinated on a winding road in Nazareth.

#10

The mayor of al-Ramla, Sheikh Mustafa, was caught between the British occupying forces and the fedayeen of the Arab Rebellion. He was a nationalist, but he also opposed Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the leader of the Arab Higher Committee.

#11

The Arab Rebellion in Palestine was defeated in 1939, but the British White Paper marked a sharp change in policy from the Peel Commission plan of only two years earlier. The White Paper called for a single independent state, which many Arabs in Palestine saw as a practical solution to their problem.

#12

In 1942, the Battle for Palestine had died down. The British high commissioner in Palestine reported that there were no genuine political developments among the Jews, and that public interest had once again shifted to the cost of living and the supply situation.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

In 1943, a Jewish salesman named Moshe Eshkenazi walked down a street in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia when he spotted a wallet full of money. He took the wallet to the police, where he was informed that the country was about to deport its Jews.