How does David K. Shipler use imagery in 2002 Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land?

The imagery really revolves around the setting. The book depicts the people and places of a narrow strip of land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Shipler paints vivid word pictures of the Jewish and Muslim quarters of the Old City of Jerusalem, the Muslim sanctuaries on the Temple Mount and the Jewish Wailing Wall; squalid refugee camps in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and southern Lebanon; brutal interrogation cells, and the Ansar prison camp; kibbutzim and militant Israeli settlements on the West Bank (which they prefer to give their biblical names: Judea and Samaria); outposts on the Golan Heights; Bedouin encampments in the Sinai and Negev deserts.