Holy Land, Whose Land?  Modern Dilemma, Ancient Roots is a thinking person’s primer. It makes digestible the complexities of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and explores as well the wider-world implications of volatile Holy Land Issues.

As Dorothy Drummond takes her readers through four thousand years of history – from Abraham to the present--gradually the realization builds: It is with strong and deeply held feelings that two peoples today are pitted against each other in agonizing conflict over a piece of real estate no bigger than the state of New Jersey. Indeed, the disputed Old City of Jerusalem, site of the ancient Temple Mount (known by Muslims since 638 A.D. as the Haram al-Sharif), and site of pilgrimage for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike, is in itself only one square mile in extent.

Part I lays out the conflict as it exists in the Holy Land today, with chapters on the beginning of the Israeli State, on Palestinian refugees, on Jewish settlements in Palestine, and the ongoing struggle for a Palestinian state.

Part II traces the history of the Holy Land, the origins of the three monotheistic faiths rooted there, and the twists and turns of geopolitics that have repeatedly shifted the region’s “ownership.”

Part III, titled “In the Vortex,” details the wider world implications of the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians, not only in the Middle East and Islamic countries outside the Arab sphere, but in the West as well.