All of my novels are democracies.
From Amos Oz
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
A conflict begins and ends in the hearts and minds of people, not in the hilltops.
But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.
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