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Amos Oz addressing the rally in support of Haim Oron (Dan Keinan)
Last update - 09:31 10/03/2008
Amos Oz: Left wing can return to power in next elections
By Mazal Mualem, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Ehud Barak, Labor, Meretz 

The Israeli left wing has a chance to win the next general elections, Israeli author Amos Oz told attendees at a rally for MK Haim Oron, who is running for the chairmanship of the left-wing Meretz Party.

Oz stated that the greatest challenge facing the left wing is convincing the public that there is a direct link between the occupation and poverty in Israel.

"Poverty is gnawing at the country. We have an impoverished country, running from Gadera to the South and from Hadera to the North. Our real enemy is not the right wing, it?s fatigue and desperation, the feeling that there is nothing we can do," Oz stated.
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Oz added that "more and more Israelis are fed up with the right wing, the settlements, and have come to the conclusion that enough is enough."

In regard to the Palestinians, Oz stated that presently there are two Palestinian entities developing, one in the West Bank and one in Gaza, and that Israel must reach a peace agreement with both.

The Israel Prize laureate also leveled harsh criticism on Defense Minister and Labor Party Chair Ehud Barak, who he said has "abandoned the dream of peace."

Oz added that Barak is entirely unconcerned with social problems in Israel and called the Labor party a "crumbling political entity."

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      1.   Amos Oz is hipocrit 02:09  |  Daniel 10/03/08
      2.   Amos Oz - Does He Believe His Own BS ? 02:34  |  Tod Zuckerman 10/03/08
      3.   Amos Oz 02:47  |  Irv 10/03/08
      4.   And pigs will be able to fly too... 02:54  |  Joe Sittizen 10/03/08
      5.   Granma Israel 02:58  |  Zev Yitzchoki 10/03/08
      6.   Granma Israel 2 03:11  |  Zev Yitzchoki 10/03/08
      7.   dream 04:23  |  markus 10/03/08
      8.   Amos grandfather from Odessa 04:49  |  Rasputin 10/03/08
      9.   Go Back to OZ with dorathy, toto, and the wizzard 05:13  |  Joe Barnathan 10/03/08
      10.   Amos Oz lives in the land of Oz with Dorothy and Toto 05:17  |  Connie 10/03/08
      11.   Good writer. Bad political analyst. Terrible prognosticator. 05:18  |  McQueen 10/03/08
      12.   Lunacy 05:18  |  Robert 10/03/08
      13.   Keep on Dreaming 05:28  |  Eli 10/03/08
      14.   Thank you Amos Oz 06:10  |  Yesh Chroman 10/03/08
      15.   To #13...you are invited to come live in Israel and FEEL the 06:39  |  spade 10/03/08
      16.   face to face 06:41  |  miloimnick frm north 10/03/08
      17.   All they care about is their own power 06:57  |  Efox 10/03/08
      18.   On wich Planet is this Guy living on ??? 07:17  |  Michael 10/03/08
      19.   Well, the Left did cancel 8 voters 07:35  |  Binyamin Dissen 10/03/08
      20.   Choose: two states or one unified state 07:41  |  Ivar 10/03/08
      21.   Amos Oz 07:47  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 10/03/08
      22.   Poverty is gnawing at the country??? 08:08  |  Guber 10/03/08
      23.   Binyamin Dissen 08:31  |  x-ray 10/03/08
      24.   Amos Oz only talks to peeople of the same ilk .. 08:52  |  redmike 10/03/08
      25.   The PSEUDO PROGRESSIVE`S ONLY ENJOY SUPPORT FROM GLOBALIST ELITES 08:52  |  Ben Uziel 10/03/08
      26.   Oz is not the wizard of OZ 09:11  |  fred 10/03/08
      27.   Sixty years of hell! 09:16  |  Atoo 10/03/08
      28.   Will the left win the next elections ? 09:17  |  Jean Van Daem 10/03/08
      29.   Where to live after the occupation ends 09:25  |  Nora 10/03/08
      30.   Pure shame 09:44  |  Hadar 10/03/08
      31.   Time for the Left to make a Cheshbon Nefesh 09:48  |  Binyamin Dissen 10/03/08
      32.   THE LEFT WING LUNATICS IN ISRAEL HAVE THE BEST DRUGS!!!!!! 09:58  |  TRUTH SEEKER 10/03/08
      33.   one too many soy lattes 10:03  |  mar 10/03/08
      34.   Amos Oz - please write more books 10:05  |  Vitaly 10/03/08
      35.   Poverty Gap in Israel 10:06  |  eddie 10/03/08
      36.   Stop playing the Spin game 10:09  |  BA 10/03/08
      37.   Amos Oz, the Israeli "Don Quijote" keeps on soldiering on..... 10:37  |  Swiss (Dino) 10/03/08
      38.   Needed: Assimilating New Creative Thinking 10:38  |  Tzfonit 10/03/08
      39.   Dear Mr Oz - Return to the Torah - We love you and need you!!!! 11:04  |  Dr Eric 10/03/08
      40.   Left wing should never ever return to power 11:19  |  Mordechai BenTzur 10/03/08
      41.   WHAT`S THE REAL POINT, AMOS? 11:29  |  indrajaya 10/03/08
      42.   #34," WISDOM and SMARTNESS" 11:57  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 10/03/08
      43.   How many of this man exist in Israel? 12:06  |  Sharif Hafez 10/03/08
      44.   The real enemy 12:12  |  Burned Liberal 10/03/08
      45.   Amoz Oz - the most well known israeli one? 12:22  |  Anne 10/03/08
      46.   # 42 Cipora Julianna Kohn 12:39  |  Swiss (Dino) 10/03/08
      47.   OZ SPEAKS WISDOM ISRAEL LOST 12:41  |  Markus 10/03/08
      48.   The Olive Branch of the Delusions Swamp 12:43  |  sh 10/03/08
      49.   More than you think, Sharif Hafez 12:48  |  sh 10/03/08
      50.   Guberism 12:58  |  sh 10/03/08
      51.   To Guber 13:02  |  Radka 10/03/08
      52.   It is not just poverty 13:04  |  l 10/03/08
      53.   author and left wing 13:13  |  english jew 10/03/08
      54.   The end of the disastrous settlement project 13:27  |  Sylvie 10/03/08
      55.   to Joe Sittizen #4 13:34  |  zeev 10/03/08
      56.   WHAT A LOAD OF ... 13:40  |  zionist forever 10/03/08
      57.   Unfortunately, the Left has Never Been United 13:48  |  Yaakov Sullivan 10/03/08
      58.   to Joe Sittizen #4 - on occupation 13:50  |  zeev 10/03/08
      59.   Amoz Oz Will Be Attacked Like the Rest 13:53  |  Yaakov Sullivan 10/03/08
      60.   ending occupation will hurt the poor hardest 13:56  |  zionist forever 10/03/08
      61.   The social problems cause more deaths... 13:56  |  Anne 10/03/08
      62.   The left wing is not in power now? 14:04  |  Steven 10/03/08
      63.   to zionist forever #56 14:07  |  zeev 10/03/08
      64.   Israel has been very generous really 14:09  |  JJ burke 10/03/08
      65.   To Sharif Hafez of Giza 14:34  |  Tzfonit 10/03/08
      66.   yaakov sullivan hates progressive zionism 14:35  |  zody 10/03/08
      67.   The social problems cause more deaths...2 14:51  |  Anne 10/03/08
      68.   Yaakov 14:56  |  Where`s waldo 10/03/08
      69.   zody and his distortions 15:04  |  Yaakov Sullivan 10/03/08
      70.   Where`s waldo nisht hin, nisht hier 15:17  |  Yaakov Sullivan 10/03/08
      71.   More self-delusional tales from the Wizard of Oz 15:34  |  Ronny Schwartz 10/03/08
      72.   Lefttists` Land of OZ 15:39  |  B