stephen paul west

The Peace of Gaza is only for the intellectually brave. The story will keep you riveted as three souls pour out their hearts in first person narrative. Who will live? Who will die? How deep is the thread that binds together a young nineteen year old girl, a retirement age American soldier, and an old Jihadist who has returned to find his paradise.

Sometimes the world must do something new and powerful to change constant and protracted war.

The Peace Of Gaza will crash upon your heart's desire of finding harmony in the Gaza Strip. This short alternate history is a taunt thriller, and the final resulting peace will be birth in the fire of absolute world terror.

Spell binding. Gripping. A Wild Ride. A psychological, fast paced short thriller that will take your breath away.

Three souls wander the very place where twenty years earlier the world was ending.

A nineteen year old girl searches Gaza City for the exact location where her father was killed twenty years earlier.

An old American soldier wanders the plaza in guard detail. His mind is filled with the war he fought at this very place twenty years earlier.

A lone Jihadist returns from exile to seek martyrdom on the very spot where the sword of Allah promised him his wildest dreams.

Three souls are fated to collide upon a single point of time and upon a single point on the earth.

A wild ride into an alternate history twenty-years from today. Peace dwells in Gaza City. In this history, three participants of the Gaza Strip discover that peace comes only with sacrifice.

Sometimes the world must do something new and powerful to change constant and protracted war.

Re-Imagine future history. Twenty years from today. A history that is free of war in the Middle East. A history with Peace in the City of Gaza

I must point out that much of the Islamic dialogue used in this story are direct quotes from Osama Bin Laden and various imam’s still living in Gaza at this moment. I didn’t wish to dilute the message of extremists in the slightest.

In spite of the difficulties, this short story dares to imagine a history that is free of war in the Gaza Strip.

Peace in the City of Gaza