Megged

For the better part of the afternoon, Megged and a second novelist he'd brought with him, David Grossman, suggested passages they'd written in advance, soaring prose about reaching out to the Arab world and ending the long conflict with the Palestinians.

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For the reader drawn into Kalman's plight there are occasional authorial intrusions by Aharon Megged under the heading Caveat Lector (I'm plumping for Reader Beware, The Latin Teacher will be out with red pen) where he examines his own conceits and his reader's pre-conceptions with an occasional warning about jumping to conclusions.

The Flying Camel and the Golden Hump...caveat scriptor? 2008

"You have to listen carefully to the father when you judge Bibi," says Megged, who has spent time with them together, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.

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Megged took it not only as a political affront but also a personal one.

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When Megged watched the speech on television the next day, he was dumbfounded.

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Since then, Megged and his wife have regularly spent time with the Netanyahus.

The Unlikely Peacemaker 2010

Megged has a complicated relationship with Netanyahu.

The Unlikely Peacemaker 2010

"I thought he should open with something dramatic, a big gesture," the 62-year-old Megged told me over coffee in Jerusalem one morning recently.

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Megged says many of his fellow writers, who tend toward the left politically, have shunned him.

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I asked Megged to describe a particular interaction between the two Netanyahus.

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