Israel Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua

Israelis are the total Jews.

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In my DNA, the Zionist gene is extremely strong.

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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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Let us not forget: The Palestinians in Gaza are our permanent neighbors, and we are theirs.

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I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews.

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Jerusalem doesn't belong only to Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, but to the world.

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Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.

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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 admit I think it is immoral for Jews to live in the Diaspora.

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This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.

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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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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone;…

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I think about the Arabs not as enemies but as cousins. Even when we are in a fierce conflict with them, they…

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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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 -…

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At the heart of anti-Semitism lies Moses. He made a catastrophic error, a terrible mistake, and all anti-Semitism for two thousand years…

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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…

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In my own view, Hamas's frustration derives from a lack of legitimization by Israel and by much of the world. It is…

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