Exile by Richard North Patterson.

Very compelling. I don't care for court room drama stories, but that was just the background of this novel. He presents many perspectives to the issue of Israel and a Palestinian homeland. I highly recommend it. At a minimum, read the sections on his travels to Israel and the West Bank.

From an interview with the author:

During my time in Israel and the occupied territories of the West Bank, I had many illuminating and sometimes harrowing experiences. Among them were meetings in Israel with the survivors of a suicide bombing in Haifa; with an Israeli general in charge of protecting Israel from terrorism; and, memorably, with Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres, twice Prime Minister of Israel. On the West Bank I experienced at first hand the incendiary fear and anger between the IDF, whose mission it is to protect Israel from violence, and the Palestinian civilians whose lives, and movements, are affected by checkpoints, raids, and the inevitable arbitrary behaviors of a military force that is both fearful and despised. And my meetings with Palestinians from all walks of life left me with indelible impressions. One of these events happened during a trip to Jenin where I met in secret with Mohammad Abu Hamad, the leader of the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade—who was, depending on one’s point of view, a “terrorist,” or a lynchpin of Palestinian “resistance” to Israeli occupation.

The meeting was remarkable for several reasons. Hamad was wanted by the IDF, and it dawned on me that the place where we met could be raided, or bombed. Hamad certainly acted as if this were a live possibility: he moved virtually every hour; was obviously fatigued; and, as I interviewed him, sat between two apprehensive bodyguards with an M-16 on his lap. Hamad was a man defined by war since he was fourteen, when he was jailed for lobbing a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli tank. But what struck me most was when I noted that the IDF asserted that the Jenin operation was in retaliation for a suicide bombing in Israel. Oh no, he answered without irony—the suicide bombing in Israel was a reprisal for an earlier IDF operation in Jenin.

In general, all of my encounters in the Middle East made it clear that the most committed antagonists are incapable of seeing this tragedy for the complex thing it is, because they are all transfixed by their own narratives and paradigms.

http://www.henryholt.com/exile/index.htm