Peace in the Middle East? A Conversation between Amos Oz and Irving Howe

IH: There is obviously a great deal of anxiety in America today concerning the situation in the Middle East. Many people feel that there was ground for modest hopefulness concerning negotiations before the Rabat Conference, but that it has seriously undermined this possibility. We fear that we are headed toward war in the Middle East during the next year.

AO: By a strange coincidence I happened to arrive in America on the day of Arafat’s speech a...