Prickly Pears of Palestine

Hilda Reilly

Foreword by Clare Short

‘Gives a human face to the conflict’ New Statesman

’Despite the endless media discussions about the rights and wrongs – perhaps because of them – I felt that most people perceived Palestinians one-dimensionally, as either victims or terrorists. I decided to go and spend some time there to see for myself.’

By living among the people of Palestine, travel writer Hilda Reilly embedded herself in one of the most widely reported and long-standing struggles in the world.

Immersed in the everyday life of the country, HIlda is able to give us inside into the people behind the politics and the realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way few have done before.

Prickly Pears of Palestine provides a much-needed human face to what life is really like for people in Palestine, a country torn apart by politics.

‘In all the political discussion about peace in the Middle East the lives of the Palestinians and their suffering has tended to be forgotten and Hilda Reilly’s book brings out these human aspects so clearly and vividly, making the reader understand what it is really about’ Tony Benn

‘A moving and vivid introduction to the realities of life in Palestine/Israel’ Bruce Kent

‘I thought I was well-informed on Palestine, but reading Prickly Pears of Palestine was an eye-opening experience’ Craig Murray

Paperback: 272pp

Publisher: Eye (September 2006)

ISBN: 9781903070529