At the literary event I wrote briefly about in February, Etgar Keret told the following story:

Before addressing the audience at a recent literary event in Paris, he and Arab-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua each worried to the other that the people who had come to hear them speak would be hostile. Kashua told Keret that there were sure to be a lot of right-wing French Jews who would accuse Kashua of being a terrorist; Keret responded that, since France was full of anti-Israel sentiment, there would no doubt be people waiting to attack him for being a baby killer (this happened to Keret in Italy).

Both authors scanned the audience, convinced that the woman with the sharp chin would be the one who would wait until the end of the question and answer session to attack one of them. But would she prove to be to the anti-Israel ideologue, or the right-wing French Jew?

The sharp-chinned woman did not wait until the end, though; she was the first to raise her hand and stand to ask a question.

"I've been sitting here, watching and listening to you both for over an hour now," she said, "And I'm confused: Which of you is the Arab, and which is the Jew?"