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I suppose I don't really have a question, but I'm glad to now know about your book. I, too, studied abroad at Hebrew U during a year of intense violence. The entire time, I felt utterly alone in my feelings about the occupation, wondering how so many other foreign students and North American expats could be so seemingly unaware that Palestinian hostilities might possibly stem from having ones rights and land stolen from under them. I'd be able to write more (and more eloquently) were I not typing on my phone, but I look forward to reading your book. Thank you!

It was the year Rabin was assassinated. Interestingly, I watched the news coverage of that event with a bunch of Palestinian guys who lived a few floors below me. I had a few friends slightly injured in bus bombings, and watched as droves of my friends left the program early as their parents demanded their return home. Luckily, my program wasn't shut down, although we came close. I do believe a student from my university was killed (or seriously injured--I can't remember) in the same Hebrew U attack in which your wife was injured. I'm glad to hear that someone else emerged from this kind of trauma as a more enlightened person!

I was there in the mid-90's, a bit earlier than you.