My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

by Ari Shavit

Although I oppose occupation, I am responsible for occupation. I cannot deny the fact or escape the fact that my nation has become an occupying nation.

There is harmony here: man and woman, Yemenite and Ashkenazi, Jew and Arab. The two peoples of the land are working side by side, producing its golden fruit.

One does not hop over a chasm in two jumps.

There is one thing that does make me angry: the spiritual aspect of absorption.