A B Yehoshua Quotes

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.
In my DNA, the Zionist gene is extremely strong.
In my own view, Hamas's frustration derives from a lack of legitimization by Israel and by much of the world. It is this frustration that leads them to such destructive desperation. That's why we need to grant them status as a legitimate enemy - before we talk about an agreement or, alternatively, about a frontal war.
Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.
Israelis are the total Jews.
It's not what the rabbis say that defines Jewishness but what we Israelis do every day - our actions and our values.
Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.
Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.
Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.
Our synagogues are spread all over the world, and we want people to respect them and look after them. And we have to respect the places of prayer of others.
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity.
This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.
We have to rethink the two-state solution.
We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.
World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.
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A. B. Yehoshua
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09 December, 1936
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Israel
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