Too many commenters seem to be missing the important point (though this doesn`t surprise me; if any real number of Israelis grasped this, we wouldn`t be in the current mess).
Murakami isn`t suggesting that Israel is the system and Palestine the egg. The System is the Israeli government and the army and the dangerous ideas of Zionism; it`s also Hamas and Fatah and the networks of terror. The two aren`t exclusive. The eggs are not just the Palestinian civilians slaughtered by the Israeli army for political gain; they`re also the Israeli civilians, and the soldiers sent to war, and the people convinced to blow themselves up as suicide bombers, and - perhaps most of all - the precious few on both sides crying "Stop! This is madness".
If more Israelis could understand this, there would be hope. Alas, I think Murakami is just the egg throwing himself against the wall. |
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