Ilan Halevi

"The establishment of the state of Israel, accomplished through the expulsion of several hundred thousand Palestinians and the immigration of several hundred thousand Jews from Africa and Asia, introduced the 'Jewish Question,' hitherto essentially a European question, into the heart of the tragedy of the Arab people of Palestine dispossessed of their space. From this irruption there arose the 'Palestinian Question.'"

"There is no comparison between the suicidal terrorism of the desperate and the reasoned terrorism of an overarmed state."

"The rather unusual case of Ilan Halevi - a kind of a contemporary John Brown - evokes a long and troubling history of excommunication, first religious and later political, which stands in the way of dialogue and reconciliation."