A. B. Yehoshua Quotes

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This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to h

This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.
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We have to rethink the two-state solution.
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I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories.
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The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.
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Israelis are the total Jews.
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Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.
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I admit I think it is immoral for Jews to live in the Diaspora.
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World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.
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At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years stems from his misjudgement. Moses said we Jews could remain a people without having a land. He said we don’t need territory to hold onto our Jewish identity. This was a disaster.
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We’re living with the Arabs; we have to understand themThrough knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.
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I come from two parts of the oriental community – Jerusalemite and North African Jews.
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I think about the Arabs not as enemies but as cousins. Even when we are in a fierce conflict with them, they are more of a kind of family – with all the problems of a family. We have to live with them.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn’t permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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The malady of the Jews is that they don’t see territory as part of their identity.
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