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A.B. Yehoshua

A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s preeminent novelists. His latest book is Friendly Fire.

Commentaries by A.B. Yehoshua

  • Newsart for Israel’s Clear-Eyed Doves

    Israel’s Clear-Eyed Doves

    HAIFA – Now that the official campaign leading up to Israel’s January 22 general election has kicked off, it is perhaps useful to define the…

  • Newsart for Put Palestine First

    Put Palestine First

    HAIFA – Not long ago, a Dutch journalist interviewed me about the Iranian nuclear question. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has al…

  • Newsart for A Thousand to One

    A Thousand to One

    HAIFA – The celebrations in Israel over the release of the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit come after the Israeli government concluded that d…

  • Newsart for Peace or Poison

    Peace or Poison

    HAIFA – Contrary to the hopes of many, the end of the Second World War and the shock of the Nazi atrocities did not mean the end of war and …

  • Newsart for Netanyahu’s Useless Demand

    Netanyahu’s Useless Demand

    HAIFA – Ever since the Six Day War of June 1967, a small number of Israelis, not all on the left, supported the idea of two states as a solu…

  • Newsart for Barack Obama, Israel’s True Friend

    Barack Obama, Israel’s True Friend

    HAIFA – How do you tell a true friend? By the fact that he believes and has confidence in you, cares about your true needs, and honestly tel…

  • Neighbors

    TEL AVIV – During the military operations in Gaza, code-named “Fused Lead” (after a Hanukkah song about a small spinning top – one of that h…

  • Corruption and Occupation

    TEL AVIV – Police investigations, commissions of inquiry examining the errors committed during the Lebanon war of 2006, repugnance at former…

  • Beyond the Gaza Ceasefire

    TEL AVIV – Finally, the long-sought truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has become a reality. Reaching this uneasy state has no…

  • Israel at Sixty

    Tel Aviv – Ten years ago, on Israel’s 50th anniversary, the peace process begun by the path-breaking Oslo accord, reached by Israel and the …

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Recent comment received by A.B. Yehoshua

  • Put Palestine First

    philip meguire: I agree with everything that Yehoshua advocates, to which I add: all disabilities faced by Israelis Arabs must be abolished. He believes that if what he calls for were to become reality, "Iranians wou…

  • Put Palestine First

    Dave O'Carroll: I enjoyed the "don't know" conversation, if only everyone could adopt the more truthful response to almost everything I'm sure the world would be blah de blah de blah. Typical Israeli humour had me…