Not only has the eyes taken over, but we have anaesthetised the ears through all the muzak that we hear all the time.

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle.

In the long term, Israel's security rests on only one pillar: the Palestinians' acceptance of the country. It isn't the atom bomb that makes Israel secure.

The Germans are prisoners of their past.

If a man dreams about sleeping with Marilyn Monroe, he's certainly entitled to that. But when he wakes up, he has to acknowledge that he is married to someone else.

Israel's strategy cannot be to constantly confront the Palestinians with the history of the Holocaust, but instead to show them that Israel is a reality.