"I doubt that anyone who ever sat down and tried to envision a Jewish homeland, at any time in the modern history of the Jewish people, imagined a place that tolerates, let alone embraces, an implicit or explicit policy of intimidation and violence against Jews."

"What under democratic circumstances would be considered unacceptable becomes not just thinkable or occasionally necessary but routine. That's what we are starting to see, not just in the Occupied Territories but spilling back into Israel itself."

"It is not just a question of some kind of passive deterioration of civil rights and human rights taking place in the course of this grinding conflict that has been going on for such a long time. There is an active disregard, a conscious rejection of core democratic civil libertarian values, because those values are seen as antithetical to the greater project of bringing about some kind of eschatological transformation or redemption. As with all fundamentalist movements, there is a deliberate repudiation of the values that form the core of liberal, constitutional western democracy. That policy doesn't merely breed or devolve into callousness, violence and brutality--it actively encourages those things, because they are viewed as being necessary to a greater, divinely inspired process of Redemption."

"How about a vision whose fruition is actually possible? One that could actually happen, in this world, and yet would not just be a complete descent into utter lawlessness or some kind of bloodbath? What seems to be missing right now is the coherent possible rational narrative of where this is going."