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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Amos Oz waits for day when PM labeled ‘traitor’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsraeli author Amos Oz says that “on the day they call Prime Minister Netanyahu a ‘traitor’ I will know something is finally moving around here.”
Speaking at the International Book Fair in Jerusalem, the writer says many leaders who changed history for the better were called “traitors”: the biblical prophet Jeremiah, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon.
Oz also criticizes the left. Regarding his book, The Gospel According to Judas, Oz was asked whether Christian anti-Semitism could be presented if the term “Jews” was not so closely related to the name “Judas.” The author replies: “It would be like hoping that if we call ourselves the Zionist Camp instead of Labor, people will like us.”
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