The Oz
The Oz
oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. Oz or OZ may also refer to:...
black-and-white world palestine
In my essays and articles I have been saying again and again that the case of Israel and Palestine, the case of Israel and the Arab world, and indeed the case of Israel and Europe, is not black and white. It's not a western movie.
sleep guy feelings
Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are the good guys? They launch a demonstration against the bad guys, sign a petition in favor of the good guys, and going to sleep feeling well about themselves.
literature not-sure
I'm not sure I'm happy with words such as "task" or "role" when they are attached to literature.
thinking people compromise
Compromise is not popular. It's not at all popular among young people who these days call themselves "activists." They think compromises are dishonest, opportunistic, humiliating. Not in my vocabulary.
writing
I write in words. I don write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.
writing hebrew
I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.
fairytale old-testament storytelling
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
age hebrew modern
Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.
thinking common language
Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.
thinking hebrew similarity
I think there are one or two things similar in Elizabethan English and contemporary Hebrew. This is not to say that every one of us Israeli writers is a William Shakespeare, but there is a certain similarity to Elizabethan English.
dream
My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.
neighbor
I want Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and in peace with itself.
dream fulfillment testimony
Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.
dream perfect rosy
The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.