By Haruki Murakami : Always on the side of the egg
Talkback
Title:To Mr. Murakami: a few words of reply from an egg
Name:A Philosopher
City: State:
First, let me welcome you to the region. Second, I would like to disagree with you about your description of literature as a skilful lie. A lie must, by definition, involve malice, deception, whereas literature is about imagination: there is no malice about that. Unfortunately, much of what you hear lately on international TV about Israel are indeed lies, not even fiction. You say that Israel is the wall and the Palestinians are the eggs, just because we have Tanks. You tend to forget that the Palestinians are part of more than one billion Muslims in the world, many of whom would like to get rid of Israel if they just could. You also forget that if the situation were reversed and the Palestinians were instead in possession of tanks, there wouldn`t be any eggs left in the middle-east. The wall we build is exactly to protect us, as eggs, from the wolf lurking outside. And If the terrorists didn`t use their own eggs as shield, they wouldn`t break either. All the best to you.