"Sometimes when I look deep into my own heart, trying to understand the tragic conflict on which so many patriots on both sides have taken out a patent as if it were their own private invention, I think that the gap between the moderates, and Azouri really is moderate, is wider than that between the extremists, because at the heart of everything is Hava and the plundered land and ancient wounds and something even deeper. Franz's Europe burnt and Hava jumped out of the fire and landed on Azouri and gave his brothers, my uncles, a brave new identity which crystallised during the struggle, and the field was left to the extremists, and the war, I know it in my guts, will be very long, it will last for generations. It won't be solved by any half-measures, in this game there will have to be a winner, and the victory will also be a defeat, for the victor, whoever he is, will bear all the scars within him and he won't have any peace, neither for himself nor for his enemies" (146).