I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.

International law says people fighting for self-determination can use force in order to achieve their independence.

They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians

I focus on my work. If I let myself get distracted by the insults and slanders I wouldn't get anything substantive done.

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.

There are many issues, as everyone knows, in the United States on which public opinion leans very much to the left of elite policy, but that's because public opinion hasn't been turned into a political force.

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