As well as being one of Israel's preeminent writers of fiction, Amos Oz was one of the first voices of conscience in Israel to advocate the creation of a Palestinian state and has been a leading figure of the Peace Now movement since 1977. This superb collection of essays offers Oz's cogent views on Israel's offensive into Lebanon in 1982; fanaticism of all stripes; the PLO; Israeli terrorism; the new militarism and the growing intolerance toward the Arab population in Israel; Jewish attitudes toward the Holocaust, and its misappropriation by the right and left alike; Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah; the dream of Zionism and its failures; and much more.
- ISBN10 0151830908
- ISBN13 9780151830909
- Publish Date 1 November 1989
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English