Sublime

The Palestinians were making political moves and, as had been the case with the Zionists, were also finding a literary voice. They did so most notably in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian born in the western Galilee whose family fled their village of al-Birwa during the War of Independence. Drawing upon both centuries of Arab verse and t

From the get-go, Ben-Gurion relentlessly tried to reach a peace deal between the Arabs and the Jews.