Amos Oz Quotes


I hsve been called a traitor many times in my career, and it is a badge that I wear with great honor.


Context

Oz ofent wrote very effective scathing criticism of the policies of the right wing governmetns of Israel and the ultra orthodox who argued that God gave the Jews Judea and Sammaria which is now the West Bank and has been occupied by Arabs for more than 1500 years.


Citations

Amos Oz. Interview, BBC World News, June 4, 2017

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Amos Oz
Amos Oz
  • Born: May 4, 1939
  • Died: December 28, 2018
  • Nationality: Israeli
  • Profession: Writer, Novelist, Journalist, Academic

Amos Oz was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onwards, Oz was a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.