Three Wishes Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak

The situation of children caught up in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is a tragic one. In this book Deborah Ellis brings us the voices of children on both sides of the conflict. All these children live extraordinary, and ordinary, lives. They argue with their siblings. They hate spinach. They dream about the future. But they have also seen their homes destroyed, their families killed, and they live constantly in the midst of upheaval and violence.

The war in the Middle East has been going on for so long, and in so many forms, that it often seems as if it will continue forever. But war, like almost everything else humans do, is a choice. The children in this book talk about how the choices other people have made have affected their lives.