"I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I w..." — Norman Finkelstein

The Zionists indeed learnt well from the Nazis. So well that it seems that their morally repugnant treatment of the Palestinians, and their attempts to destroy Palestinian society within Israel and the occupied territories, reveals them as basically Nazis with beards and black hats.

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.

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