Why I Wrote Palestine & Israel: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly — The History Relived

Why I Wrote Palestine & Israel: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly — The History Relived

For most of my life, I watched the same images on repeat — smoke over Gaza, rockets over Tel Aviv, leaders shaking hands in front of cameras only for the peace to dissolve by nightfall.
Every time the violence flared, the headlines changed — but the story never did.

I didn’t write this book to pick a side.
I wrote it because history already had.

Too often, the story of Palestine and Israel has been told through filters — political, religious, or emotional — leaving readers with fragments instead of the full picture. I wanted to create something different: a work that walks through time like a camera, capturing each era as it was, not as it’s been rewritten. From Herzl’s dream in Basel to the wars of Gaza, from the birth of Zionism to the death of Rabin, every chapter rebuilds what propaganda has tried to erase.

I wanted readers to feel history again — not as a textbook, but as a living, breathing narrative where choices and consequences collide.
To see Ben-Gurion not as a myth but as a man.
To see Arafat through the eyes of his people and his rivals.
To see how the same promises of peace became the same cycles of betrayal, over and over again.

Writing this book was like walking through fire — every fact challenged, every paragraph balanced between outrage and empathy. But truth deserves discomfort. It demands it.

At its heart, Palestine & Israel is not about conflict; it’s about memory — who controls it, who distorts it, and who fights to reclaim it.
It’s a modern history told without permission, because some stories should never wait for approval.

History isn’t just remembered here.
It’s relived.

— Dylan Christopher