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He had spent three years among the Americans, and had been shocked—though he knew he should not have been—to find them entirely unburdened from history. The Americans he knew best possessed a rosy nostalgia about the past and a preposterous hope for the future.
He had spent his adult life hoping Israel might become a normal country, that Jews might be normal people. His uncle had said once he’d like Israel to make peace with the Palestinians and in the region so it could be treated like a boring country, like New Zealand, but given everything that had happened on the Land, it was surely too much to ask. What could you do with so much history?
I like drinking, and after two sessions of drinking with pretty much anybody I’m going to like them, too.
