Occupation: Writer Birth: May 4, 1939
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it..
It's possible a Palestinian state will be installed over the heads of the Palestinians. It could be part of an agreement between the Israeli governme….
The dreams and the visions of the Israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. They were world reformers. They wanted to create a….
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature. I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather….
My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself..
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should do this." They don't listen to ….
Literature may open a third eye in the middle of the reader's forehead..
Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel.….
I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaders….
When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace..
Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago. "The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was ….
Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. Dreams fulfilled are imperfect. And, Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry fr….
The battlefield is first and foremost horrible stenches, not sights, not sounds, but stenches. They don't travel well into literature..
Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishones….
I follow the way people change. I follow the way people, who are very antagonized to one another become very close to one another and vice-versa. Som….
Don't write about that which you don't know..
Donald Trump basically said: One state, two states, do whatever you like. I do not think this was a serious statement of American policy. This was hi….
Let me make it very clear: when I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant w….