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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/laying-groundwork-hope-israel-palestine-grassroots-efforts/"></div><p>This November brings the 70-year anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly partition plan calling for the establishment of two separate states in British mandatory Palestine. As everyone knows, that initiative didn’t work out quite as imagined. Debate over the ongoing conflict that has simmered ever since tends to focus on the military and politics, the violence and the failed negotiations. But what is so often overlooked is the impact the conflict continues to have on the people themselves, the civilians, and especially the most vulnerable among them, children with serious illness. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/laying-groundwork-hope-israel-palestine-grassroots-efforts/#more-5805" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Laying a Groundwork for Hope in Israel-Palestine Through Grassroots Efforts

Elisha Waldman, MD, FAAHPM, is the associate chief of the division of pediatric palliative care at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and the author of the forthcoming book <em>This Narrow Space: A Pediatric Oncologist, His Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Patients, and a Hospital in Jerusalem.</em> He is a Public Voices fellow with the OpEd Project.