Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.