There will be no Palestinian state

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.

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.

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.

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

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

Love and kindness are the hammer and chisel that gently chip through barriers and long-held beliefs to reveal the magnificent soul contained within every human.

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

God wants an opportunity to prove who He is.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.