In 2011, BtS published Occupation of the Territories: Israeli Soldier Testimonies 2000-2010 (also published as Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010 ISBN 978-0805095371). The book contains first-hand accounts by over 100 Israeli soldiers. David Shulman, Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, described the book in The New York Review of Books as "one of the most important published on Israel/Palestine in this generation.". Most of the book contain interviews from second Intifada time when there was numerous terror acts against Israeli civilians but it mentions the terror threat only in one sentence. Elliott Abrams a senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations writes that "Put simply, the book's description of a West Bank living in deliberately inflicted misery does not comport with reality."
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