Prepare to enter the world of contemporary Israel/Palestine through the unsparing eyes of an informed and passionate observer—a respected US physician struggling to understand the lived realities of Jews and Palestinians caught up in a trap unlike any other on earth.Jennifer Leaning, Director, Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights

Never – I repeat, never – have I encountered such a wondrous amalgam of innumerable personal stories, a wealth of information and data, systematic historic explanation, and perfectly articulated ethical-political thought. Alice Rothchild is one of those Jews who is in a “special kind of exile,” criticizing Israel from a singular, insider, activist place. The three visits to Israel that she chronicles, ranging from June 2013 to March 2015, provide the narrative context for a literary trip that engages facts and ideology, individuals and organizations, towns, villages, cities, and refugee camps, the sweep of history and the present, current critical condition. And what about the future? Rothchild hints that we do not have the “privilege of despair.” Still, read the book… and weep!Anat Biletzki, Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy, Quinnipiac University, and Professor of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. Chair of the Board (2001-2006) of B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

[Rothchild] is committed to speaking truth to zionist power. But at some level she is also reaching out and speaking to the world at large.
As one reads those lines of discourse one is struck by the ferocity of her intellectual honesty and moral outrage… I cannot salute Alice Rothchild enough for daring to speak her (and my) truth so boldly and unambiguously to her American Jewish audience. Dr. Hatim Kannaaneh, author of Chief Complaint: A Country Doctor's Tales of Life in Galilee