Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

The difference is that if we turn from the Gentile first, we will have the Almighty as the immediate staff and our comfort. If not, we will have neither the Gentile nor, for a terrible stage, the Almighty.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.