"Try a Little Tenderness" (interview) in Ha'aretz, March 17, 2000.
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The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.
— Amos Oz
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About Amos Oz
Amos Oz (4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli novelist and journalist.
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