I'm politically on the left, no question about it. I oppose sweatshops, I oppose exploitation of labour in the third world.

There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their country from invaders who are destroying their country. That to me is a very basic, elementary, and uncomplicated question.

The Holocaust only emerged in American life after Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day war against its Arab neighbours.

Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.