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. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
I only published my first novel at the age of 40. Till then, I wrote short stories. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently – his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh – and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs – not only politics but poetry – was very important; he took it as a vocation. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
The malady of the Jews is that they don’t see territory as part of their identity. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
It’s not what the rabbis say that defines Jewishness but what we Israelis do every day – our actions and our values. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn’t permit them to cross boundaries with other people. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
