Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor (2018)

A short book of letters from an Israeli Jew to his Palestinian neighbors, which his wife has likened to a letter in a bottle thrown over a wall. Yossi Klein Halevi, who grew up in Brooklyn, moved to Israel in 1982 and is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, tries to explain why Jews feel bound to the land in terms a Palestinian reader could recognize. It is the most direct answer here to the question of how a committed Zionist who wants a shared future sees the conflict. The paperback edition adds an epilogue of written responses from Palestinians and others in the region, which turns a monologue into something closer to a conversation.