We are still a people in danger. And yet I urge us not to get addicted to it.

I thought of reaching out for progressive Israelis, progressive Americans, progressive American Jews - this was probably my main mission.

I think that good things will happen in the Middle East, in Israel, and to American progressive Jewry only if we work together to save a progressive Israel that progressive Americans can have affinity with again.

Anyone who has a simplistic idea about the Middle East, or about the conflict, doesn't get it - because there are no simple answers. And anyone who is messianic, in a right-wing way or a left-wing way, is wrong too. The way forward is a kind of cautious, commonsense approach - a cautious, humble hope. No fantasies.

At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.

I think we need a life-loving Palestine living by a Jewish democratic Israel.

We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.