[H]aving fought a war, you will never be the same human being. Having shot at people, having been shot at by total strangers, you will never be the s… - Amos Oz

I am a great believer in compromising. I think the only alternative to compromising is fight to the death on any front, on any level.

Israel is essentially a refugee camp. So is Palestine, which is what makes this conflict so tragic. It's a conflict - tragic conflict between two victims, between two refugee camps.

I've been called a traitor a few times in my life by some of my countrymen. But this is no exception. Almost every person who steps out of the consensus is accused of treason by his contemporaries, or by her contemporaries. In fact, my protagonist in this novel (Judas) says that a traitor is very often simply a person who changes in the eyes of those who despise change, who mistrust change, who are antagonized to every change.