"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful…"

"The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole ide…"

"The [political] left are people with an imagination and the right are those without an imagination."

"The kibbutz way of life is not for everyone. It is meant for people who are not in the business of working harder tha…"

"America is too large and too abstract to generalize about."

"The Hebrew writers who I feel should be more widely appreciated my own mentors, I suppose-are Micha Berdyczewski, Yos…"

"I am a great believer in compromising. I think the only alternative to compromising is fight to the death on any fron…"

"I don't believe in magnanimous dreams coming true. Every fulfillment of a dream or of an ambition is bound, destined,…"

"I'd fight again and again if it would be a matter of life and death for the nation. I would not fight, though, for an…"

"Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: 'Yids, go back to Palestine,' so we came back to P…"