PositiveThe Globe and MailI hope the book reaches its intended audiences both in the Middle East and around the world. For Halevi, in the end, is still optimistic that there could be peace ... \'One of the main obstacles to peace is an inability to hear the other side’s story,\' Halevi writes in a note to the reader, and he invites the other side to listen. \'For peace to succeed in the Middle East, it must speak in some way to our hearts.\' Not in the language of politics, but the language of the spirit. It is, he believes, a language shared by both Muslims and Jews, two ancient peoples who have co-habited this tiny part of the world for centuries. Both are traumatized by history, both feel equal attachment to this land.