“It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and...”
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עמוס עוז (קלוזנר; 4 במאי 1939, ט"ו באייר ה'תרצ"ט – 28 בדצמבר 2018, כ' בטבת ה'תשע"ט) היה סופר ואינטלקטואל ישראלי, פרופסור לספרות באוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב. עוז נחשב לאחד מגדולי הסופרים בישראל. הגותו העיונית עסקה בספרות, בזהות ישראלית וציונית, במחשבה מדינית-חברתית מנקודת השקפה סוציאל-דמוקרטית. ספריו וסיפוריו תורגמו לכ-45 שפות בכ-50 מדינות, והוא נחשב לסופר הישראלי המתורגם ביותר בעולם. זכה בפרסים יוקרתיים לספרות בישראל ובעולם, בהם פרס ישראל לספרות לשנת תשנ"ח (1998), פרס גתה (2005), פרס היינריך היינה (2008) ופרס ביאליק. שמו הוזכר מספר פעמים כמועמד לפרס נובל לספרות. ---------- Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner (עמוס קלוזנר); 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He was the author of 40 books, including novels, short story collections, children's books, and essays, and his work has been published in 45 languages, more than that of any other Israeli writer. He was the recipient of many honours and awards, among them the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, the Legion of Honour of France, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature, the Heinrich Heine Prize, and the Franz Kafka Prize.
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“It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and...”
“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.”
“In many ways, I regard Sharon and Arafat as birds of a feather.”
“Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptia...”
“Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is...”
“If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don...”
“On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.”
“But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.”
“Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities.”
“Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously, there should be an embassy of all countries in the wo...”
“But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationa...”
“The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.”
“I have mixed feelings about Jerusalem. It is fascinating, it is beautiful, it is tragic, and it is extremely attractive to all kinds of fanatics or redeemers, world reformers, self-appointed...”
“I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other...”
“I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still goss...”
“And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful,...”
“Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better t...”
“I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.”
“The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.”
“Jesus was born a Jew, and he died a Jew. It never occurred to him to establish a new religion. He never crossed himself: he had no reason to. He never set one foot in a church. He went to sy...”