Word: oz.
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...AMOS OZ has fought in two Israeli wars, in 1967 and 1973. Now, at age 43, he is fighting again--this time for peace. It is, he says, his most painful battle, because his opponents are his fellow Israelis...
...Oz's latest book, In the Land of Israel, accuses his country of immorality in typically blunt Israeli fashion. By piecing together a variety of extremist Israeli viewpoints, Oz debunks the myth of Israeli unanimity and crafts his vision for Israel in literary form. The series of interviews recorded in this book shows a wide range of Israeli public opinion: the anti-war movement, the anti-Zionists, the Arab nationalists, and Palestinians, the secular Jews, and the ultra-conservative Gush Emunim...
...solution Oz offers to the dilemma Israel faces is an idealistic pluralism, the open admission and consideration of all dissenting views. It is the cacophony of public opinion in which Oz places hope for Israel's future. Even the structure of the book reflects the variety and contradictions in which he delights. As he said at a forum at Harvard on November 9, "It is better to be severely divided than artificially united...
Normally the purest river in the European part of the Soviet Union, the Dniester became "brinier than the saltiest sea water," in Vasilyev's words. Containing as much as 10 oz. of salt for every quart, the burning brew killed some 2,000 tons of fish, destroyed an unknown quantity of aquatic plant life on which fish thrive, and forced officials to cut off water temporarily to numerous communities that depend on the Dniester, including the major cities of Odessa and Kishinev. To make up for the lost water, officials scurried to drill wells and divert streams and lakes...
...border-town birthplace. The family left Juárez when Alex was five; but his mother remembers that as a baby there he would throw a fit whenever she washed his hair. That does not seem long ago to his parents. Says Jesus Muñoz: "He was still like...