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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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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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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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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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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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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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It's not what the rabbis say that defines Jewishness but what we Israelis do every day - our actions and our values.
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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.
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Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
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For 50 years - that is, for most of my adult life - I worked tirelessly for the two-state solution in the face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.
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I am a serious reader, and I read slowly.
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Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.
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Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.
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I admit I think it is immoral for Jews to live in the Diaspora.
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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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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.
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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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We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.
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