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On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

- Amos Oz
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I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

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 than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

When you're on the battlefield, you switch off your soul; otherwise, you would die of terror - you would die of fear. You switch off your soul, and you act like an animal or a machine.

Happiness as a human condition is something I never believed in. I think there are moments of happiness. I don't think there is a lasting happiness. I think this is unthinkable.

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 synagogue.

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-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible.

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, no less convincing claim.

I was born in a tiny little enclave of terrified Jewish refugees, less than half a million of them, with no clear perspective of a future - hopes, yes, but no clear perspective.

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On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.