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

Ironically, the people who do not need Israel are gradually taking over Israel, and they're actually pushing out people who so need it.

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

Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my nation’s occupation policy are not unconnected. On the one hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people. On the other hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened. Both occupation and intimidation make the Israeli condition unique. Intimidation and occupation have become the two pillars of our condition.

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

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

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.