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A. B. Yehoshua

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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. - A. B. Yehoshua
#Bridge
#Conflict
#Desire
#Dreams
#Stupid
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. - A. B. Yehoshua
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#Moment
#Never
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#Truth
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries. - A. B. Yehoshua
#Boundaries
#Cross
#Desire
#Expression
The malady of the Jews is that they don't see territory as part of their identity. - A. B. Yehoshua
#Identity
#Jews
#Part
#See
#Territory
Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world. - A. B. Yehoshua
#Belong
#Jerusalem
#Jews
#Only
#World
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. - A. B. Yehoshua
#Gold
#Literature
#Mine
#Understand
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. - A. B. Yehoshua
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#Identity
#People
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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. - A. B. Yehoshua
#Blood
#Desperate
#Left
#Revenge
#Suicide
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? - A. B. Yehoshua
#Cafe
#Honor
#Man
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Israelis are the total Jews. - A. B. Yehoshua
#Israelis
#Jews
#Total
I admit I think it is immoral for Jews to live in the Diaspora. - A. B. Yehoshua
#Admit
#I Think
#Immoral
#Live
#Think
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. - A. B. Yehoshua
#Boundaries
#Cross
#How
#Keep
#Questions
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. - A. B. Yehoshua
#Beginning
#Difficult
#Process
#Writing
Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs. - A. B. Yehoshua
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#Let Us
#Neighbors
#Permanent
#Us
I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation. - A. B. Yehoshua
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#Poetry
#Politics
#Understanding
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