I have no authority to write about Egypt.  I was there last year and felt like I was at home, and I wrote a little book about it.  That’s all.  But when I read about it in the New York Times  

  and how all the sites that had been crowded with people were now empty – I was so…is there a word like ‘homesick’ for a place you’ve only been to once?  

Most of the attractions for tourists in Israel are also attractions for the locals, so as soon as it is allowed, we crowd in everywhere.  So we didn’t see many empty places – or maybe i don’t remember.  You would know better than I do if you’ve read these pages because I don’t read what I write.