1810 quotes by israeli authors for you to enjoy

It's for the Palestinians to decide who will lead them. Ami Ayalon

Will Lead Decide Them Who Palestinians

The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life. Ami Ayalon

Life Fight Political Party Seek Does Political Life Labor Body

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. Amos Oz

News People Nationalism Everyday Everyday People About Never Headlines Sort Makes Israel Same Precisely Any Fanaticism Which Anywhere Far Sea Militancy Novel Fundamentalism Set

The idea that all Israelis are villains is a childish idea. Israel is the most deeply divided, argumentative society. You'll never find two Israelis that agree with one another - it's hard to find even one who agrees with himself or herself. Amos Oz

Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible. Amos Oz

Peace Unhappy Seen Before Beginning President Possible Arafat Would Would-Be Week Jordan Between Nobody Arrival Came His End Up Handshake Egypt Predicted Process Peace Process Ever Jerusalem Things

I love Israel, but I don't like it very much. Amos Oz

Love Like Israel Very Much

I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed. Amos Oz

In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather. Amos Oz

Birds Ways Arafat Feather Sharon Regard Many

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself. Amos Oz

World Live Jews Unknown Out Religious Ten Outside Outside World Almost Occupied Territories Israel Israeli Itself Nationalistic Eight Where Conflicts Plain Fiery Far Coastal Jerusalem

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. Amos Oz

Values Parents Considered Scale Something More Cultured Western

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same. Amos Oz

Conflict Down Our Secrets One Of The Things Introduce Fact Beyond Same Transcending Wanted Sea Deep Deep Down Things Below

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic. Amos Oz

Party Between New Labor Microscopic Central Gap Actual

Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously, there should be an embassy of all countries in the world in East Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Palestine. Amos Oz

World Example Country Every President State President Trump East Embassy Follow Simultaneously Countries Israel Trump Move Capital Should Jerusalem Palestine

Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities. Amos Oz

Music You Writing Bit Evoke Inside Some Echoes Like Cathedral Empty Huge Very Modern May Hebrew Chamber Playing Careful

There is a difference between myself and some of the peace people in Europe: whereas they think that the ultimate evil in the world is war, I think the ultimate evil in the world is aggression, and aggression sometimes must be repelled by force. Amos Oz

War Myself Peace People World Sometimes Evil Think Must Some Between Force Ultimate Repelled Difference Whereas Aggression Europe

I am not a pacifist in terms of turning the other cheek. Amos Oz

Other Cheek Terms Am Pacifist Turning

Jesus was born a Jew, and he died a Jew. It never occurred to him to establish a new religion. He never crossed himself: he had no reason to. He never set one foot in a church. He went to synagogue. Amos Oz

I listen to my political rivals sometimes with fear and trembling, sometimes with awe, sometimes with near panic, but always with a curiosity of nuances, curiosity for the language, curiosity for the story behind the 'impossible' position. Amos Oz

Fear Sometimes Political Impossible Language Trembling Panic Rivals Always Curiosity Listen Behind Story Near Awe Nuances Position

My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them, anywhere. Amos Oz

Parents Become Scandinavian Tried Nobody American Wanted Anywhere Them British

Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity. Amos Oz

Life Time Anger Perspective Compassion Criticism Looking Looking Back Back About Longer Look Without Said Always Exists Times Curiosity Nostalgia Either Literature Which Certain

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