I Don't Think A Decent Person Has

The Far Right Is Saying To Us: Forget About The Two-state Solution, It Is Going To Be A Jewish State From The Coast To Jordan. The Left Wing Says You Have To Forget About Jewish Self-determination, You Will Have To Live As A Minority In An Arab State - Just Like The Whites In South Africa. The Key Word That Both Have In Mind Is That The Situation In The West Bank Is "irrevocable." It Is One Of The Words I Dislike The Most.

Donald Trump Basically Said: One State, Two States, Do Whatever You Like. I Do Not Think This Was A Serious Statement Of American Policy. This Was Him Shrugging His Shoulders And Saying: Who Cares About It. I Think He Doesn't Even Have The Faintest Idea Of What He Wants To Do In The Middle East.

If You Steal From One Book You Are Condemned As A Plagiarist, But If You Steal From Ten Books You Are Considered A Scholar, And If You Steal From Thirty Or Forty Books, A Distinguished Scholar.

If You Change Your Diet, Someone Will Call You A Traitor.

I Don't Think A Novel's Main Donation, Main Gift, Is The Document. The Document Is There, But A Novel Goes Beyond Documentation. It Goes Into Opening A New Vista, Opening A New Perspective, Showing Familiar Things In An Unfamiliar Way, And Making The Reader Reconsider The Documentary Facts Which He Or She May Have Known Before.