Amos Oz Quotes
Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: "Yids, go back to Palestine," so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: "Yids, get out of Palestine."
Oz, Amos. A Tale of Love and Darkness. Translated by Nicholas de Lange, Harcourt, 2004.
According to Bauer and his anti-Semitic followers, the problem with the Jews was Judaism
He was distraught at the persecution his family was forced to endure in Germany.
The large Jewish immigration to America was like most immigrations before and since. Some elements of American society thought the immigrants undesirable and worse. Others felt America needed immigrant labor to grow and do the undesirable chores of society. Still others saw immigration to America as a part of American destiny. Herzl’s understanding of America was superficial and the anti-Semitism that many Jews faced dominated his thinking on the subject.
See {588181} for more about the Rally. Kuhn followed the Nazi Party line that claimed America was controlled by Jews. At the same meeting he referred to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as “President Franklin D. Rosenfeld using a typical Jewish name. Many Nazis believed that the President was a Jew who had changed his name.
Even some of the Muslim countries of the OIC were embarrassed by the blatantly anti-Semitic speech of the host country prime minister. He parroted the discredited canard of the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
This statement hardened the Israeli population away from anything that would bring Hamas more power. The PLO leader had, for ALL the Palestinian people, recognized the right of Israel to exist {633062}. The Israelis observe that this is a de facto declaration of war, and hence treat Gaza and Hamas as an enemy force to be reckoned with. See {635341} for another alarming reneging of the recognition of Israel.
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.
