“….we and the Palestinians cannot become one happy family tomorrow because we are not one, we are not happy and we are not a family”

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….we and the Palestinians cannot become one happy family tomorrow because we are not one, we are not happy and we are not a family. We are two unhappy families. We need a fair divorce and not a honeymoon. Maybe with time there will be a common market, a federation, cooperation, but as a first phase this country is going to be a two family home because we are not going anywhere. We have nowhere to go. And the Palestinians are not going anywhere because they have nowhere to go either.

The long dispute between the Palestinians and Israel is not a Hollywood western portraying good against bad, but a Greek tragedy about justice versus justice, and often, unfortunately, injustice versus injustice.

Amos Oz, “Last chance for a Jewish State”, trans. Elise Shazar, Jewish Journal (6-12 March 2015), 13.

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