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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1992

or David Grossman,
there is no greater joy
than the ability to
change one's mind.
Not in the indecisive
sense, however. Mr.
Grossman maintains that
humanity is earned, in his
words, "by the ability to
rearticulate oneself."
The Israeli novelist, speak-
ing at the University of
Michigan's Hillel Founda-
tion last Saturday night,
said that rearticulation of
the self is a crucial step
toward integrity, since it
throws off the assumptions
of some "outside ar-
bitrariness."
For Mr. Grossman, this
theory is rooted in one of the
most troubling events of his
native Israel: the intifada. In
1987, he wrote The Yellow
Wind, a collection of jour-
nalistic essays about the
Israeli occupation of the
West Bank.
At the time, his work was
both hailed and vilified;
hailed because it raised the
issue of what occupation was
doing to both Palestinians
and Israelis and vilified be-
cause some thought it was a
fabricated story that, in any
case, did not take into ac-
count Israel's security needs.
Mr. Grossman, in his Sat-
urday speech, said the book
raised a new issue — that oc-
cupation hurts both occupier
and occupied — but that
Israelis had, for the most
part, not made great strides
in "rearticulation."
Palestinians, he said, were
willing to accept a much
different reality as the cost
for their rebellion; Israelis
have not accepted that their
reality, too, must change.
"The Palestinians refor-
mulated themselves. They
were willing to pay the price.
Now, we have good partners
in them, but I'm not sure
they have good partners in
us," he said.
The problem of
"rearticulation" is essential
to the nature of Israel, a
place which demands cons-
tant review of ideology, he
said.
"Maybe you can live
without ideology in Norway
or Iceland or here. But in
Israel, you must feel this in-
ner justification to stay
there, to face the objective
dangers we face there," he
said.
If Israelis do not adjust to

David Grossman:
Internal change.

the reality of being an oc-
cupier, he said, they delude
themselves into a sense of
false ideology.
"These are not the illu-
sions of a fiction writer," Mr.
Grossman said. "It is possi-
ble. Naive is someone who
believes Israel can win all •
the wars that will come."
"We are so stingy and
miserly in our hopes," he
said.
In Yellow Wind, Mr.
Grossman wrote about
Deheisha, a Palestinian
refugee camp on the West
Bank:
"It doesn't matter at all
who is really guilty of the

"The Palestinians
reformulated
themselves. They
were willing to pay
the price. Now, we
have good partners
in them, but I'm not
sure they have
good partners in
us."

David Grossman

refugee camps —we, the
Israelis, will pay the price.
We, and not the Arab coun-
tries or the world. It is us
they will hate, these chil-
dren living their whole lives
in a colorless world without
happiness, who spend long
summer and winter hours in
a cold and mildewed kinder-
garten . . . "
And for Mr. Grossman,
who lives in a neighborhood
of Jerusalem that sits in the
West Bank, how Israelis pay
the price is an intense, per-

