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Israel Quotes by Amos Oz

57 Israel quotes by Amos Oz

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Oz notes that people often take extreme sides on Israel, being fully pro‑Israel or fully pro‑Palestinian. He observes that the two‑state solution faces attacks from both the far right and far left, and that political moves like moving an embassy can spark big debates. He also mentions that his own stories are rooted in the land he knows best.

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Israel should aspire to be a decent country. That's good enough for me.

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

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Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.

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

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I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.

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

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My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

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The place of my novels is Israel, almost without exception. All of them take place in Israel - in Jerusalem, in the…

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I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.

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Universally, not only in Israel, people want to feel good about themselves. We all want to feel good to some extent.

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Israel has obviously not liberated the Palestinians in Gaza or the West Bank. We have occupied them, but we have not liberated…

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My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace. I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in…

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I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian…

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We lived through a relatively golden age between the end of World War II and Sept. 11, 2001.

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This bloody conflict has been going on for much too long. It is doing terrible things to Israelis, to Palestinians. One of…

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Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery…

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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a tragedy; it is a clash between right and right. And, therefore it's not black and white. Sometimes,…

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I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as,…

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My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace…

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If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.…

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It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran…

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I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world,…

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I have mixed feelings about Jerusalem. It is fascinating, it is beautiful, it is tragic, and it is extremely attractive to all…

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Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. Dreams fulfilled are imperfect. And, Israel is imperfect, of course it…

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I don't envy Netanyahu's situation, because I think he is in hot water. Obviously, this man has a totally different sense of…

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I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different…

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Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago. "The State of the Jews" was not…

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Black Box is not a statement about injustice committed against Sephardi Oriental Jews or about the extremism of religious Jews or the…

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The far right is saying to us: Forget about the two-state solution, it is going to be a Jewish state from the…

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In some of the Israeli media, but not all, they read about very nasty things done by Israeli settlers and soldiers to…

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The Jews have a powerful ally, America, but they do not really have a bigger family in the same way that there…

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"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.

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Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

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I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a…

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Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or…

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But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a…

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Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously,…

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Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: Yids, go back to Palestine, so we came back to…

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The idea that all Israelis are villains is a childish idea. Israel is the most deeply divided, argumentative society. You'll never find…

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Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a…

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Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process…

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I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

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Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved…

When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should…

We have to carry through to the next day and hope that we will be okay tomorrow as we are today and in the…

Trump is many things. He is pampered. He is an immature man. He is a teenager craving unconditional, endless love from everybody.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never…

“Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs,…

Never cut loose from your longings.

If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent. I don't…