Israeli author Amos Oz says that “those who do not understand the vitality of the alliance with the US for our future, should not lead us.”
Amos Oz in Jerusalem, May 3, 2010 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
Oz, speaking at the Institute for National Security Studies conference, directed his criticism at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his intention to speak to Congress next month.
He also says the current government is stepping farther away from the two-state solution and this causes him “great concern about the future.”
“For me, the idea of a bi-national state is a sad joke, you cannot after one hundred years of conflict put both sides in the same bed, you cannot be one happy family. We need a fair divorce and a duplex kind of house in this land.”
“If there are not going to be two states quickly, there is going to be a fanatical Jewish dictatorship,” Oz adds.
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