![]() The book presents a summary of this unconscionable situation, and just about every word is still true, 55 years later. Those refugees are still right there, crammed along the Israeli borders in makeshift cities. The plight of the Palestine Arabs who were induced out of their land by the war faring Arab states, however, has not been resolved. ![]() Israel was then associated with the political left, but not anymore. Played out over the epic history is a storyline involving the Ben Canaan family, Kitty the American nurse, her surrogate Israeli daughter Karen, and Karen's rebellious boyfriend Dov. Then there is Palestine’s struggle under the suffocating British mandate, and nascent Israel’s miraculous victory over the various hostile Arab states. The second part shows the seeds of modern Israel through a pair of mythic-quality Russian refugees who enter Palestine in the 1880s and begin transforming the soil. The first segment recounts the Holocaust (first, in the eyes of a girl who escaped to Jew-friendly Denmark, and then in the eyes of an Auschwitz survivor). In his epic novel, Uris constructs an argument in favour of the state of Israel, laid out against 70 years’ worth rampant European anti-Semitism. His detailed chronicle of European Jewry from the turn of the century to the establishment of Israel in 1948 was distributed secretly in communist countries. ![]() Leon Uris’ 1958 bestselling novel Exodus runs to 600 pages, has equalled the sales of Gone With The Wind and has been translated into 50 languages. ![]()
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