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This book explores the relations between China and the Palestinian organizations and their development during the period of 1964-1971. It serves as a case study for understanding China's relations with the Arab world, the superpowers' competition in the Middle East, and the Arab-Israeli conflict in general. It offers a compelling retrospective on a critical period at a time when the contours of power and peace in the Middle East have shifted dramatically. Highlighting the importance of building bridges of understanding and reconciliation across the Middle East divides, it draws on the author's long experience of study, research, speaking, and writing about the Arab-Israeli conflict and Jewish-Muslim reconciliation.

"It all started in the Garden of Eden,a blissful place at the edge of the universe,a wonderland oasis and paradiseplanted by the Creator."Read the rest of the story, A Tale of Two Souls, inside this book. It is a lyrical narrative about discovering purpose in life. Are we all born with a divine 'mission'? How do we investigate, and where? How do we find purpose and meaning every day through life's surprises and challenges, its advances and reversals? Shai Har-El's artful poetic story navigates these swirling waters and carries us safe home to greater understanding and acceptance.Har-El speaks to all people of every religious and spiritual practice. He is a trustworthy guide, and A Tale of Two Souls is a poignant tale of engaging fully with life.

The Greek philosopher Aristotle distinguishes between two disciplines, history and poetry. He suggests that history reports what happened and therefore is concerned with particulars, whereas poetry is more philosophical and concerned with universals. I agree. My poetry is an authentic presentation of my inner world, and unlike history, the study of which I have been dedicating my life for many years, it is not subject to all the constraints and imperfections of actual life. I believe my poems, though autobiographical and personal, can appeal to anyone; the personal story in my poetry may illuminate your story because it tells the truth, my truth and yours. I described this kind of truth in one of my poems, portraying it "like a petalled rose emerging from one stem offering its sweet fragrance and infinite beauty to humanity." With age come better knowledge and a wider experience of life. This comes up through my poems. Walking you through the seasons of my life, they start with a deep yearning and longing to the beginning, growing up in Israel; they continue through the experience of my multi-faceted love for and intimacy with my beloved wife Rosie of blessed memory, the central figure in my life over 50 years; they shift to my preoccupation with the questions of oneness and harmony in the world; they go through the period of my spiritual awakening and illumination; and they finally end where life in This World concludes, in death and grieving.

The fruit of relentless peace activism and many years of philanthropic work in the Middle East Peace Network, In Search of Israeli-Palestinian Peace is Shai Har-El's unique, non-utopian, proactive approach to Middle East peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Introducing a framework to generate new conversations about inter-religious dialogue and create a community of religions, Shai Har-El argues that Islam and Judaism, sister religions, are closely related to one another with roots intertwined in the land, in the language, and in the memories of shared history.