It's utterly hypocritical for Israelis to wonder aloud why Palestinians don't pursue a non-violent strategy. One obvious reason is that, whenever they have, Israel brutally represses it.

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?

Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.

I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.

There's nothing Israel can do without US support. It can't breathe without US support. The US bankrolls everything, and it's just silly to think that Israel can do anything without the support.

Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with nonsense if not sheer fraud.

People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.

It used to be said: As GM goes, so goes America. Now it's: As Starbucks goes, so goes America.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.