The Oz

The Oz
oz. is a common abbreviation for the ounce. Oz or OZ may also refer to:...
jesus mean enemy
When I say compromise I do not mean capitulation. When I say compromise I definitely do not mean what Jesus Christ meant when he offered us to turn our other cheek to our enemies. Compromise means, try to meet the other somewhere half-way. And, this can only happen if the other is willing to go half-way in order to meet you. That is the very strict line between compromise and capitulation.
sea political pieces
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
imagination people political
The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination.
israel ideas vocabulary
The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.
believe compromise believer
I'm a great believer in compromises. I do not believe in capitulation.
hate people long
When people have peace, they hate it and long for excitement, and when they have excitement, they want peace.
tiny born lows
I was born and bred in a tiny, low-ceilinged ground-floor apartment.
order people want
The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder than they should be working, in order to make more money than they need, in order to buy things they don't really want, in order to impress people they don't really like.
novel
All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.
party gaps labor
The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
bird way sharon
In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.
sea secret facts
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.
book stealing academic
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
strong children acceptance
She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.