The fiercist critics of Israel's actions over the past three months don't want to hear, let alone acknowledge, these feelings, because the weeks of ongoing death and destruction in Gaza have erased for them the hours of rampant torture and rape and murder that preeceded them.
Cohen and Namdar do what great novelists must. They exercise an extreme form of empathy and follow where it leads them. If I wanted to discuss the Jewish condition, these were the people to do it with. They had each devoted many, many pages to obsessively circling questions of identity and belonging, diaspora and home.
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