The Battlefield Is First And Foremost Horrible

That's My Gutsy Advice To Any Young Writer: Write Only About What You Know Well.

The Six-day War Laid A Foundation Of Deep Hatred Toward Israel 50 Years Ago. I Said This At A Very Early Moment Back Then, When People Were Chanting About Liberating Ancestral Land. I Was Quick To Say That Regardless Of The Future Of These Territories, Liberated They Are Not, Because The Term Liberation Only Applies To Human Beings And Not To Land, Not To Real Estate.

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 Gossips.

We Supporters Of The Two-state Solution In Israel And Palestine Are Now Under A Fierce Attack From The Far Right And From The Far Left In Israel And In Europe. If I Were A Paranoid, I Would Say That Maybe The Far Left And The Far Right Are Coordinating A Conspiracy.

Hebrew Has A System Of Tenses, Which Is, In A Big Way, Different From The English System Of Tenses, Probably Different Than Any European System Of Tenses, Which Means A Different Sense Of Reality, Which Means A Different Concept Of Time.