<p>The pioneering autobiographical story of a British Zionist in her fifties who moves to Israel and chooses to live among 25,000 Muslims in the all-Arab Israeli town of Tamra, a few miles from Nazareth.</p>
<p>Susan Nathan&#8217;s revelatory book about her new life across the ethnic divide in Israel is already creating international interest. At a time when Middle Eastern politics (in many ways central to the current world disorder) have become mired in endless tit-for-tat killings, Susan Nathan is showing &#8211; by her own daily example &#8211; that it is perfectly possible for Jews and Arabs to live peacefully together in a single community, recognising their common humanity.</p>
<p>The author&#8217;s familiarity with the former injustices of apartheid South Africa enables her to draw telling comparisons with the state of Israel. The increasing segregation of, and discrimintation against, the million-strong Arabic population of Israel is something she witnesses at first hand, but in describing her experiences in Tamra she is as observant of Arab frailties as of Jewish oppression.</p>
<p>Written with warmth, compassion and humour, &#8216;The Other Side of Israel&#8217; is one courageous woman&#8217;s positive life-enhancing response to a situation in which entrenched attitudes lead only to more violence and bloodshed.</p>