The Thinking Heart: Essays on Israel and Palestine (Vintage International)

by David Grossman

For hundreds and thousands of years, Jews were a minority in the countries they lived in, and that experience shaped the Jewish people’s identity and refined its moral sensitivity. Now we Jews are a majority, which comes with enormous responsibility and brings huge challenges.

On that awful ‘Black Saturday’, it turned out that not only is Israel still far from being a home in the full sense of the word, but it does not even know how to be a true fortress.