My parents suffered a lot until they came to this place. Somehow, I absorbed that this was something really essential and important. Where they could be a free people in our land. I watched my parents get up in the morning, rejoicing that they lived in a place where they were not persecuted for their origins and could speak in their own language. “‪I’m a son of Holocaust survivors – not at the ideological level, but at the instinctive level.

It’s obvious to all the people like Roni Daniel and Yvet Lieberman that no matter how much we bomb and kill, the moment we stop they’ll say, ‘Why are you stopping just when we were about to win?’ The militant way tells the biggest lie, which is, ‘It’s true that we didn’t agree to negotiate, it’s true that we went into the fight, but we could have reached an agreement and it’s all your fault, you horrible people, you left-wing trash! Bring us a baseball bat and we’ll clean their clocks – because you didn’t let us reach the Promised Land‬.’”‬‬ĭo you ever think of leaving? There’s talk like that now‬.‬‬ There’s an awfully obvious dynamic here, even at the point where we are in the operation. It’s less pleasant to make the same mistake for the 10th time. There are always the same processes, the same junctions and always the same supposed solutions that lead nowhere. “‪I have a weird feeling,” Keret said, even before the incident at the film screening, “that we’ve already lived through almost every moment that we experience. 'Tel Aviv Noir' Exposes City's Seamy Side.Etgar Keret Dreams of Israel With 'Nazis'.Etgar Keret: Darker and Nostalgic Yet New.

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