Listen to New Voices on Studs Terkel our partnership with 826CHI-here! Read the Story
Showing 1 - 2 of 2 results
The children of Rosenblatt's book, "The Children of War" were either victims themselves or they lost a relative to the war. Elizabeth, a young girl from Ireland, said she hadn't lost her faith in God but she lost her faith in man. Hawda, a Lebanese girl, was in the hospital because shrapnel had slit her stomach open. When asked, Hawda told Rosenblatt that all people are good. What happened she said was God's will and God never wants people to kill.
Joan Peters spent seven years researching history and asking a lot of questions like 'Who were the refugees? and why are they still in the camps?," for her book, "From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine." According to Peters, the Middle East does not accept non-Muslim as equals. Peters explained, the Jews are not equals but rather they are 2nd class citizens.