Five Novels to Read about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

There is no way to absorb or understand — and never ever to accept — the Hamas attack on Israel last week and equally difficult to process the Israeli response. I always turn to books to try to understand the world I live in, and novels are often the best way to explore the human impacts of political, religious, and social events that shape the world. The five following novels are among my favorite books in a lifetime of reading books (and one year of reading a book a day) and also are some of the best novels which present the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…