Three texts, one main theme: fanaticism. One question: how do you confront it? One answer: with honorable compromise. Amos Oz, the world-renowned Israeli author, is not afraid of words, nor of unpopular political concepts. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism; it is death, he writes, indifferent to whether his words are liked or not within or outside the borders of his homeland.

In this little book, he collects three speeches he gave at the university of the German city of Tübingen, in which he summarizes his views on the contradictions, pain, brutality, and dead ends of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, insisting that humanity must generally react to any opinions that violate life and promote the culture of death.

A book that must be read precisely because - as Nobel laureate author Nadine Gordimer emphasizes in the book's foreword - Amos Oz is a healthy voice amid the confusion, the lies, and the hysterical murmurings of the global rhetoric surrounding modern conflicts.