Summary
Jewish-Israeli writer whose 1985 debate with Anton Shammas (revisited 1992), as covered by Baruch Kimmerling (2002b), opens Chapter 5 of Stateless Citizenship (2013): Yehoshua tells Shammas that if he wants a state with a Palestinian character he should move “one hundred yards eastward, into the independent Palestinian state” (Kimmerling 2002b, 181-182, as quoted, PDF p.167).
Details
- In the second debate Yehoshua is presented by Shammas as seeing “Israeliness as total Jewishness”, leaving no place for the Arab in that Israeliness (Kimmerling 2002b, 183, as quoted, PDF p.168).
Related pages
Stateless Citizenship (2013), Anton Shammas, Baruch Kimmerling