"In a month Israel will have elections: people want change. We have had enough of this government that has led us from one catastrophe to another. We need a different leadership." This was said by Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo at Pordenonelegge.
"I am hopeful that the next time I am in Pordenone we will be able to talk about a different Israel," he added. "If in 1967 someone had told my father, who was fighting at the front, that there would be peace agreements with Egypt, he would not have believed it. History has shown more than once that peace is possible, and the only way to achieve it is through dialogue."
During the war, Nevo recounted, his way of understanding his craft also changed. "In meetings with people affected by post-traumatic stress disorder, I felt that my role as a writer was therapeutic, caring, more about empathy than slogans shouted in the street. Now, however, perhaps times have changed, and with them the role of those who write: perhaps the moment has come again to take to the streets."
The theme of conflict will return in his upcoming books: a memoir, dedicated among other things to the writer's experience during the war, and the novel "The Longest Night," which tells the odysseys of five characters including a Palestinian from Gaza: "We Israelis no longer feel at home in our country, and on the other side many Palestinian people have lost their own homes."