"Having lost his land to Israel and his father and son to Palestinians, Mr. Khoury is in a rare position to petition both sides to re-examine themselves. A Palestinian nationalist, fluent in Hebrew and English, Mr. Khoury said he believed that the Oz autobiography, with its account of Jewish refugee life here in the 1930s and ’40s, could be a vehicle to help Palestinians and other Arabs see the Jews in a different light. "
By ETHAN BRONNER
In memory of a son killed in a terrorist attack, a Palestinian lawyer [Elias Khoury] paid for an Arabic translation of the autobiography of Israel’s most prominent author and dove, Amos Oz.
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