After a few months you stop noticing every incarnation of radicalism and violence. It is so saturated into your reality that it practically fades into the scenery.

While I regard the Nakba as an ongoing crime that needs to be prosecuted and reversed...Shavit defends its necessity and lectures Palestinians trapped in squalid refugee camps to just get over it.

You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism.

I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul.

There will be no Palestinian state

Only Zionists get to proclaim their fear of a brown planet while simultaneously maintaining a patina of liberal respectability.

I think we need to draw a contextual distinction between what the neo-fascists of Europe would like to do and what the state of Israel has done.

My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.

If we don't kill, we will cease to exist

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

You are what exists before all stories.

All sin is equally wrong, but not all sin is equally bad.

You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy.

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.

My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.