A. B. Yehoshua
Novelist
1936-12-09 – 2022-06-14
A. B. Yehoshua was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. He was a central figure in modern Hebrew literature.
Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua
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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?
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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 face of countless frustrations, both on the part of the Israeli governments and the Palestinian Authority.
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In my DNA, the Zionist gene is extremely strong.
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This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.
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Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.
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