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'Every country is built on stories'
Stories are 鈥渢he glue that keeps us together, but also they can be a very dangerous thing,鈥 the author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen has told 大象传媒 Hardtalk鈥檚 Stephen Sackur.
鈥淎n objective fact can be turned into a myth and later to a story told by professional storytellers, not necessarily authors, but politicians, in order to keep reality as it is right now,鈥 she explained.