Notes

1. Yehuda Amichai, ‘Jerusalem is full of used Jews’, The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, trans. Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell (New York: HarperPerennial, 1992), p. 135.

2. Tsfarir Corcia, ‘War of Words on the streets of Tel Aviv’, www.ynetnews.com, 8 August 2006.

3. Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen (1855); John Mills, Palestina (1858); Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (American Publishing Company, 1869), p. 520.

4. H.B. Tristram, The Land of Israel: a Journal of Travel with Reference to its Physical History (1865), p. 500.

5. H.B. Tristram, Bible Places or, The Topography of the Holy Land (1875), p. 239.

6. Amia Lieblich, Kibbutz Makom (London: Andre Deutsch, 1982), p. 23. The following quotes by Saul are from pp. 18-23.

7. Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptomist (Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2003), p. 127.

8. Karl Sabbagh, Palestine, a Personal Story (New York: Grove Press, 2007), p. 79.

9. Walid Khalidi (ed.), All That Remains: the Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Washington: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1996), p. 55.

10. Rahel, ‘With my own hands’. There’s a slightly different translation in Flowers of Perhaps: Selected Poems of Ra’hel, trans. Robert Friend (London: The Menard Press, 1994), p. 51.

11. H.B. Tristram, The Land of Israel (1876), p. 199.

12. J.R. Jones, Gwaedd yng Nghymru (1970), published in translation in Meic Stephens (ed.), A Book of Wales (London: J. M. Dent, 1987), p. 157.

13. David Jones, Preface to The Anathemata, in Selected Works of David Jones, ed. John Matthias (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1992), p.116.