44 Quotes by A. B. Yehoshua

Our synagogues are spread all over the world, and we want people to respect them and look after them. And we have to respect the places of prayer of others.

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.

Israelis are the total Jews.

This is why I am a Zionist: because Diaspora leads to hatred and the Holocaust.

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.

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.

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews.

Jews outside Israel live in permanent contradiction. I think they should come home.