Tag: Amos Oz and the real ‘Israel’

NOVANEWS Amos Oz and the real Israel By Lawrence Davidson On 29 December the New York Times (NYT) reported the death of the charismatic Israeli writer Amos Oz. Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Oz was altogether Israeli. That is, he did not come to Palestine from somewhere else. Only nine years old when Israel came into being, Oz knew no other nationality. Nor did he really know his Palestinian neighbours. His view of them was typical of the Western view of his time: that their political and social potential did not go beyond what could be found in the stereotypical “Arab state”. That stereotype had only negative connotations for Oz, and this was the reason he denied the possibility of a one-state solution wherein Palestinians and Israeli Jews lived together in relative harmony. He claimed that...