It’s Complicated: The Path of an Israeli-Palestinian Love Story
Ms. Rabinyan said she would not give up hope, no matter how remote a deal might seem now (which, spoiler
alert, are about as remote as the chances were that Liat could ever give in to Hilmi completely).
She wanted Americans to read the book for what she said it is — a story of a specific love and its boundaries — and not because of the free-speech controversy here or the backdrop of a conflict
that will not heal, now 50 years since Israel took control of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.
If you said ‘hashtag’ in 2002, people would have thought it was a breed of dog."
Ms. Rabinyan, in person both fierce and pleasant, found success at an early age.
Rabinyan said that In New York they became more like each other, same land, same experiences,
By IAN FISHERMAY 3, 2017
JERUSALEM — Dorit Rabinyan’s love story was selling very well despite,
and maybe because of, the lovers: an Israeli woman and a Palestinian artist who meet in the frost of a New York winter not long after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"Intimate relations, and certainly the available option of institutionalizing them by marriage and starting a family — even if
that does not happen in the story — between Jews and non-Jews, are seen by large portions of society as a threat on the separate identities," Dalia Fenig, an Education Ministry official, told Ynet a leading Israeli news site, in December 2015.