Israel today is bad for the Jews.

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.