All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist.

In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.