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- Christopher Hitchens98◆ In America access is always about architecture and never about human beings. Among Israelis and Palestinians, access was rarely about anything but people. While in the U.S. a wheelchair stands out as an explicitly separate experience from the mainstream, in the Israel and Arab worlds it is just another thing that can go wrong in a place where things go wrong all the time.
- John Hockenberry98◆ If the Palestinian people really suffered a nakba, it was largely of their own making — and that of their grand mufti.
- Sol Stern98◆ Zionist willingness to compromise met by Palestinian rejection and Jew hatred.
- Sol Stern98◆ ...British appeasement of the Palestinian Arabs led directly to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews [in the Holocaust] who might otherwise have found refuge in Palestine.
- Sol Stern98◆ The Jews were, as he (Augustine) put it, the living letters of the Law, that they were a constant reminder of the love of God to His chosen people, and that they were a constant reminder that Christ would be returning.
- Thomas F. Madden98◆ There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which I don't much respect (Mosaic Law, the Nuremberg Laws, and the Israeli Law of Return) I do qualify as a member of the tribe, and any denial of that in my family has ceased with me. But I would not remove myself to Israel if it meant the continuing expropriation of another people, and if anti-Jewish fascism comes again to the Christian world—or more probably comes at us via the Muslim world—I already consider it an obligation to resist it wherever I live. I would detest myself if I fled from it in any direction. Leo Strauss was right. The Jews will not be 'saved' or 'redeemed.' (Cheer up: neither will anyone else.) They/we will always be in exile whether they are in the greater Jerusalem area or not, and this in some ways is as it should be. They are, or we are, as a friend of Victor Klemperer's once put it to him in a very dark time, condemned and privileged to be 'a seismic people.' A critical register of the general health of civilization is the status of 'the Jewish question.' No insurance policy has ever been devised that can or will cover this risk.
- Christopher Hitchens98◆ ...the Palestinian Arabs' obsession with the Jews and rejection of all political compromise was inspired by Islamic teachings as well as by European fascism.
- Sol Stern98◆ We will consider every hand who will try to take our weapons, as an Israeli hand.
- Hassan Nasrallah98◆ I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots—written off in those days as mere 'fringe' elements—and found that they called themselves Gush Emunim or—it sounded just as bad in English—'The Bloc of the Faithful.' Why not just say 'Party of God' and have done with it? At least they didn't have the nerve to say that they stole other people's land because their own home in Poland or Belarus had been taken from them. They said they took the land because god had given it to them from time immemorial. In the noisome town of Hebron, where all of life is focused on a supposedly sacred boneyard in a dank local cave, one of the world's less pretty sights is that of supposed yeshivah students toting submachine guns and humbling the Arab inhabitants. When I asked one of these charmers where he got his legal authority to be a squatter, he flung his hand, index finger outstretched, toward the sky.
- Christopher Hitchens98◆ Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it Israel's immaculate misconception.
- Avishai Margalit98◆ I like his optimism,' I said. 'I like the way when he and some other rabbis saw a jackal in the ruins of Jerusalem, and the others began to cry, he laughed and said that just as the prophecy of the destruction of the temple was fulfilled, so the prophecy of the rebuilding would also be fulfilled. I like that.
- Chaim Potok98◆ Suddenly, Said spoke up. 'You told me that you read my book, The Question of Palestine. Did you read the section entitled ‘Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims?' If you did, you would know that I articulated what Zionism means to Jews. Though not many Arab intellectuals would be sensitive to the suffering of Jews, I understand that suffering. I even went so far as to appreciate the meaning of Israel for Jews. You see, Zionism is a great narrative filled with idealistic hopes, historical identification, and redemptive possibilities. It is a story of spectacular achievement, of bringing Western sensibility and enlightenment to a degraded and unworthy part of the East. The only problem with this narrative, the one you defend, is that it is based on illusions. You see, there were inhabitants living in Palestine. These inhabitants lived and died in Palestine. They tilled the soil, built villages, and looked upon themselves as organically connected to that land. The Arabs who lived on that land for centuries were irrelevant to the more important goal of establishing a Western leaning civilization in the Orient. The indigenous population was a nuisance; a troublesome detail to be dealt with.
- R.F. Georgy98◆ The important but delayed realization will have to come: Israeli Jews are a part of the diaspora, not a group that has escaped from it. Why else does Israel daily beseech the often-flourishing Jews of other lands, urging them to help the most endangered Jews of all: the ones who rule Palestine by force of arms? Why else, having supposedly escaped from the need to rely on Gentile goodwill, has Israel come to depend more and more upon it? On this reckoning, Zionism must constitute one of the greatest potential non sequiturs in human history.
- Christopher Hitchens98◆ It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can't expect an unhealthy person to think logically.
- Izzeldin Abuelaish98
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