I'm not yet approved for postingn in debunkingwhite, but I read your post about Zionism and I strongly recommed a book called The Lemon Tree: A Jew, an Arab, and the Heart of the Middle East. It's very elucidating and detailed in it's story of a house in the disputed Palestine-Israle territory. A very good background. I also recommend Thomas Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem.
I second this recommendation. "The Lemon Tree" focuses on two people, an Arab man and a Jewish woman, and one town in Israel, Ramle, but it puts these people and this town in the context of history, and it offers a good sense of the humanity, and imperfection, on both sides.
Also -- I haven't ready any books by Tom Segev, an Israeli historian, but I've been told he's worth reading.
How old is your niece? The text seems to require a lot of background. If she doesn't understand markets, stocks, bonds, and prices, and if she's never heard of "day traders," the book might go right over her head. Of course, if her parents both work on Wall St., she might be a lot more sophisticated than I was at her age (whatever that age might be...).
Also (and this is really nitpicky), a buttonwood tree doesn't look like your picture. Another name for the buttonwood is "American Sycamore;" it looks a lot like the London plane trees that are planted everywhere in New York, and its leaves are broad, with multiple sharp-cornered lobes. The tree in your picture is very nice, but it's not a sycamore.
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Also -- I haven't ready any books by Tom Segev, an Israeli historian, but I've been told he's worth reading.
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Also (and this is really nitpicky), a buttonwood tree doesn't look like your picture. Another name for the buttonwood is "American Sycamore;" it looks a lot like the London plane trees that are planted everywhere in New York, and its leaves are broad, with multiple sharp-cornered lobes. The tree in your picture is very nice, but it's not a sycamore.
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