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Many Intellectuals In America And In Europe, They Are In The Habit Of Taking Sides: Who Are The Bad Guys? Who Are The Good Guys? They Launch A Demonstration Against The Bad Guys, Sign A Petition In Favor Of The Good Guys, And Going To Sleep Feeling Well About Themselves.

The Revival Of Hebrew, As A Spoken Language, Is A Fascinating Story, Which I'm Afraid I Cannot Squeeze Into A Few Sentences. But, Let Me Give You A Clue. Think About Elizabethan English, Where The Entire English Language Behaved Pretty Much Like Molten Lava, Like A Volcano In Mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew Has Some Things In Common With Elizabethan English. It Is Being Reshaped And It's Expanding Very Rapidly In Various Directions. This Is Not To Say That Every One Of Us Israeli Writers Is A William Shakespeare, But There Is A Certain Similarity To Elizabethan English.

The Very Same Book, Even If It Is Translated Very Accurately, Let's Say From Hebrew Into English Or From English Into Hebrew, Becomes A Different Book Because Language Is A Musical Instrument.

The Actual Gap Between Labor, Likud And The New Central Party Is Microscopic.

I Don't Think Israelis Are Less Critical Of Corruption Than People In Italy, France Or America. Israel Is Special In A Different Way. There Is A Daytime Israel And A Nighttime Israel. The First Is Self-confident, Pushy And Passionate, Like Other Mediterranean Lands. It Is Hedonistic, Materialistic And Almost Arrogant. During The Nighttime, People Are Terrified, People Are Filled With Existential Dreads. These Fears Aren't Baseless.