How long are you going to lie to the Israelis with your tales of illegal posts?!!! How long! You, Yehoshua, an Israeli writer, who is educated enough to know that when the Palestine of the British Mandate was given to the Jews, it was completely empty of inhabitants! Read "Time immemorial" by Joan Peters and the 1882 Ottoman Census proves this point very clearly ! Only when the Jews came back, the Arabs wanting this land simply asked other Arabs living in neighboring countries to settle the Palestine of the British mandate, occupying a previously empty land!! We are sick of you, Yehoshua!! Sick of you, Israelis, who are dishonest with even the most basic historical facts. And why? For this Utopian peace!! Lieberman said it clearly: lands, illegal posts, you name it, it is not the issue! The issue is that the Arabs will never stop complaining until they have conquered ALL ISRAEL: Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, you name it!! How long you, Yehoshua, HOW LONG ARE YOU GOING TO DECEIVE THE ISRAELIS WITH YOUR REQUESTS!! HOW LONG!!

What Israeli law are you referring to that makes them illegal? When it comes to people taking the law into their own hands in defense of Jewish values, does the Maccabean revolt mean anything to you or did you purposely leave this out when referencing the Bar Kochba revolt? BTW, Jason, the last time I asked you this question, you failed to answer: What is your PhD in?

Yehoshua,like the rest of us, is entitled to express his opinions on political matters, althogh one would have wished for some sophistication. My beef here is his pretence to being a Zionist.There is nothing in his background and writings which will qualify him as a Zionist..This brings into focus a matter which has been bothering me for years: None of the currently famous Israeli novelists, poets and composers has produced an opus on the epocal events of Israel history such as the War of Independence, the unparallel innovations in making the desert bloom and turning Malarial swamps into orchards, the Six Day War. Where are the Israeli Illiads, the equivalents of Tolstoy's "War and Peace",etc. ?Instead, we have the foremost novelist in Israel repeating like a parrot the hostile propogantist untruth calling Israel "Apartheid" state.

I'll advise all my American friends, relatives, the thousands of bloggers on my youTube and myspace blog to boycott you..that should be helpful, right? ;-)

i'm not the biggest fan of a.b yehoshua, but he makes some good points here. and no i'm not naive. i don't know what the datim here are really expecting as a response, but it's illegal to create these outposts and they have to go no matter what. just as the israeli housing and land authority destroys bedouin homes when they are built illegally they have an obligation to do the same thing to jewish homes. end of story.

Are you serious? This book was such utter nonsense. It's been completely discredited by every major Jewish schlor in the world. Why are we allowing stupid people to own computers?

how can he be such a gifted writer and such a fool ? He endangers the very soverenty of the Jewish State. Israeli policy making can never be done in Washington or we are finished.

What kind of pathetic comment is that "why are we letting stupid people own computers" because you dont agree with someone's point they must be stupid ? and in your opinon stupid people shouldent own computers eh ? Dumb canadians if you ask me... Next, Name me 5 scholars that discredited Joen peters ? A wiki search shows yehoshua porath (who ran from extreme left meretz party) discrediting the book... C'mon you gotta do a bit better than that. Were jews persocuted in arab lands ? yes.. was the number of arab refugees made up? yes.. did arabs mostly come in the 1880-1900's :? yes... Your computer should be confiscated.

Israel should send the US ambassador home until the US embassy relocates to the country's capital. If the Jewish people can't live in the "Palestinian State" then Muslims shouldn't be living in Israel. I'm tired of one sided arguments. The only land that is occupied at the present is Israel, there was never a Palestinian State, and the Muslim refused the land when it was offered to them in 47.

Probably a hopeless case but a few good shock treatments just might pull A.B. out of it.

The only response to America pulling its ambassador will be to support those anti Semites who want Israel destroyed. The only Americans who would support such a move hate you and see Tel Aviv as as much an illegal settlement at Hebron. Don't ask America to decide your internal problems. You will only bring strength to those who want to end your very existance. If the left can't win an election on the issues it doesn't deserve to rule.

Interesting. This article is like published twice? http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3496354,00.html Ingenious!

I invite you Jonathan to drive up on Route 5 from TA to Tapuah Junction and then turn right down south to Jerusalem on Route 60 to see for yourself the massive and illegal Arab construction that's going on there. The fact is Jonathan that the "law" the Peres-Olmert-Barak-Livni "team" enforces only on Jews, not on the Arabs. This is one. Two, the law is for man and not the other way round. Three: The Torah presents us (Jews) with an altogether different set of Laws. Should Israeli law override G.d's Law? If so, why? Doesn't it mean that Israel is NOT a Jewish country?

When a man complains for forty years and no one seems to listen to him, perhaps he should consider the possibility that he suffers from an obssesion. Proposing that Israel and the Palestinians turn to a wizard is a throwback to the dark ages. His intentions are noble, but let's not forget what is said about the road to hell.

Say what you will about US politics, anyone asking another country to influence our decisions would be taken away in a straitjacket. Of course, in Israel, that sort of thing makes you an icon. So Israel, you can keep him.

Yehoshua should stick to writing fiction which he does very well. Politically he has not been very insightful. He for years has antagonized Jews outside of Israel by telling them that their lives are not authentic. He has promoted the idea of a Palestinian state while at the same time urging Israeli Arab integration into Israel only to see them 'Palestinize' and openly declare themselves working for the end of the Jewish state. His call for America to save us from ourselves is another bit of foolishness- for it is Israelis who must decide on what Israel should do.

They can also recall ambassador. After all, YOU've just set a precedent. And when US decides Israeli self-defence is unwarranted, more pressure. Jerusalem has to be shared, more pressure. Thanks A.B. Its Jews like you who will end up killing Jews like me.

I do not agree with the author 100%. Olmert and Barak strategy resulted in the fall of the wall. Now the Gazan Arabs can bring more weapons and start the war. This will prevent new elections (in Israel) and advance progress in the Middle East. Also, the bloody war will result in a 2-state solution.