I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.
I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.
Jewish existence in the Land of Israel depends only on the Jews, and on what the Jews think of themselves.
I'm no more or less Jewish than any other Jew. Israel has survived because we haven't forgot our Judaism, but there are some Israelis who did forget.
Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.
The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.
Am I an Israeli? That's a good question.
Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.
Israeli Arabs don't have to go. But if they stay, they have to take an oath of allegiance to Israel as a Jewish Zionist state.
I am not in exile.