World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology – the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
So with truth – there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there’s never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
I don’t think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing – even in part – our capacity to contribute to other peoples. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren’t even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
We must see what in the Israeli identity – in the Israeli – we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. A. B. Yehoshua Read Quote
