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...onto the roof, fished in the water tank under the ceiling and crawled under the floor. Darkness had long descended on the city when they decided to dig up the garden. They switched on the terrace lights and started digging. The damp, ash-covered lawn was trampled into a sea of mud; all the flower beds were dug up, and spades were sunk into the earth around the shrubs. They even pulled plants out of their pots. But they found nothing, for nothing was there to be found. In the end, physical exhaustion got the better of their revolutionary zeal...
...self-examination? You gave a statistical record of your life like someone writing down an account of daily expenditures. Why? Because you have something to hide!'' That night I had a nightmare, the first of many: I was on the narrow ledge of a sheer rocky cliff by the sea. The roaring waves of the incoming tide were rising to engulf me. It was pitch dark, I was utterly alone, and I was petrified...
...country will be one of the most blooming, most beautiful and happiest: an old-new nation will flourish in an ancient-new land. Then we shall relate how we fevered and worked, hungered and dreamed.'' Israel seems now a nation in a state of strange suspension. In the Dead Sea, one cannot sink, so dense is the water with minerals. Nor can one swim without difficulty. The water is heavy and bitterly stings the eyes. The body floats in uneasy weightlessness in the blue-green metallic sheen, and one looks off across
...lifeless water toward the crumpled hills of Moab in Jordan. At 1,300 ft. below sea level, it is the lowest place on earth. Far down to the south is the site of ancient Sodom, now under a few feet of water, and to the north is the monastery of the Essenes at Qumran, where most of their Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Farther, toward Jericho, the mount in the wilderness where Satan tempted Christ. And in the distance to the south, the terrible brow of Masada, where 960 Jewish Zealots committed suicide rather than surrender to the besieging Romans...
...pauses during his interview every time to answer the child first. Palestinians? ''There is no Palestine.'' Jews called it Palestine before 1948. The Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are transients. West Bank? ''There is no West Bank in real geography. It is really the west bank of the Dead Sea.'' Dayan does not ''want to offer Arabs second-class citizenship.'' The Arabs must leave, or be persuaded to leave through a requirement of national service or high taxes. ''They should have 48 hours in which to sign a loyalty oath to the Zionist state. Otherwise they will be expelled...