Triple
“"No room to maneuver."And like that.They acted as if they had just invented sex. The only faintly unhappymoment came when she looked at his scars and asked how he got them. "Wevehad three wars since I went to Israel," he said. It was the truth, but notthe whole truth."What made you go to Israel?""Safety.""But it's just the opposite of safe there.""It's a different kind of safety." He said this dismissively, not wantingto explain it, then he changed his mind, for he wanted her know all abouthim.... "Miere had to be a place where nobody could say, 'You!re different,you're not a human being, you're a Jew,' where nobody could break my win-dows or experiment on my body just because rm Jewish. You see ... " She hadbeen looking at him with that cleareyed, frank gaze of hers, and he hadstruggled to tell her the whole truth, without evasions, without trying tomake it look better than it was. "It didn!t matter to me whether we chosePalestine or Uganda or Manhattan Island-wherever it was, I would have said,That place is mine,' and I would have fought tooth and nall to keep it.Thafs, why I never try to argue the moral rights and wrongs of theestablishment of Israel.MoreLess
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