My brother the quarryman  Arnold Wesker salutes Daniel Gavron's
attempts to look impartially at the problems of the Middle East
in The Other Side of Despair The Other Side of Despair: Jews and
Arabs in the Promised Land by Daniel Gavron  by Daniel Gavron
224pp, Rowman & Littlefield, £17.95  This seemed to me an
important book when I read it; post-Madrid and post-Sheik
Yassin, it is an urgent book to read. As Daniel Gavron writes:
"Although it is the bombs and bullets that capture the
headlines, numerous examples exist of friendly cooperation
between Israelis and Palestinians."  We are desperately hungry
to know about them. This book is a kind of Jewish Via Dolorosa.
David Hare spent a few weeks in Israel and interviewed a motley
collection of Jews and Palestinians. Gavron, London born, has
lived for 43 years in Israel, where he has worked as a
journalist, written five books of non-fiction and two novels
about life in Israel and its history, and was a founding member
of the team that established the Palestine-