As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a militant atheist.' So I had to be a militant atheist because I wanted to be a communist.

As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."

Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.

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

I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.

Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.