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Isreaeli writers are activists too

By United Press International
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SAN DIEGO, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Two weeks ago, Amos Oz, David Grossman and A. B. Yehoshua traveled to Geneva to attend the ceremony of the signing of the unofficial Israelo-Palestinian peace accords.

The peace treaty, in which Amoz Oz participated, is known as the Geneva Accords. It was put together by a team led by former Israeli justice minister, Yossi Beilin, and former Palestinian information minister, Yasser Abd-Rabbo, and is meant to show the Israeli and Palestinian governments that where there is a will there is a way.

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The authors said in a recent New York Times interview, that artists who live in Israel cannot remain impervious to political events. They keep their fiction non-political, but cannot feeling concerned and becoming involved by the political situation in Israel.

Grossman is the author of "The Book of Intimate Grammar" "Be My Knife",Oz is famous for "Fima", "My Michael", "The Same Sea", and Yehoshua's latest is "Liberated Bride".

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