Showing posts with label Martin Fletcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martin Fletcher. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Walking Israel; A Personal Search for the Soul of a Nation

by Martin Fletcher

Martin Fletcher had long dreamed of walking Israel's 110-mile coastline which "has to be the most fascinating, action-packed hundred miles in the world . . . when you consider the extraordinary span of history crammed into this tiny coastline."

He was able to achieve that dream in the summer of 2008, when he walked from Rosh Hanikra (once known as the Ladder of Tyre) at the border of Lebanon to Israel's boundary with Gaza.

As a reporter who had covered Israel and the Middle East for European and American television since 1973, Fletcher knew how easily wars, bombings and terrorist attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank hit the news.