Palestine [Paperback] Duke, DW

Palestine is about a Jewish boy named Aaron Levy who, at the age of five, is traveling with his family in Israel when the vehicle in which they are riding is attacked by Palestinian terrorists. His entire family is killed in the attack. Aaron is traumatized and emotionally scarred.Many years later, Aaron enrolls in medical school in the United States and meets a beautiful female Palestinian medical student named Al Zahra who is a descendant of Mohammad, the founder of Islam. They become very close but their religious and ethnic differences place them into a forbidden romantic relationship. After four years of medical school, they part ways, and many years later, they meet again when Aaron, as an Israel Defense Forces medical officer, comes face to face with Al Zahra, who is now a Palestinian doctor working in a hospital in the municipality of Gaza. Under the pressures of a combative situation, their religious differences and their human strengths are put to the ultimate test. Described as an "action romance," this book will keep you on the edge of your chair from beginning to end.