It would be a tragedy if we had to leave. It is so nice here, like Switzerland.”

Resident of Ariel, New York Times, 9 September 2010. Read the article here.

On the eve of 5771, the need to disengage from the stigma of the “occupation state” is…not… a luxury but…an emergency lifesaving operation

Editorial, 8 September 2010, Haaretz.  Click here to read the article.

…the maximum Olmert could offer…did not reach the minimum [Abbas] and the PLO could accept

MK Ahmed Tibi, Haaretz, 7 September 2010. Read the interview here.

The Israelis have to choose between settlements and peace. They can’t have both

Saeb Erakat, the New York Times, 5 September 2010. Read the article here.

…in situations of a prolonged conflict which has no solution… society needs to muster all its resources in order to preserve a positive self-image

Izhak Schnell, Department of Geography and Human Environment at Tel Aviv University. Read the article here.

Shalom to you in Israel. I know we have disappointed you…we have not been able to deliver peace in the last 19 years.

Saeb Erakat, in a promotional video for the Geneva Initiative, on the occasion of renewed talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Click to view.

If a convert…converts through the Orthodox, he has the Jewish gene. If he doesn’t convert through the Orthodox, he doesn’t have the Jewish gene

Minister of Interior Eli Yishai (Shas), in an interview for the Jerusalem Post.

Cultural and academic institutions that receive budgetary support from the state do not owe it obedience in return

Editorial, Haaretz, 30 August 2010. Read the rest here.

Even if [Netanyahu] taught himself to utter the words ‘two-state solution’, he deeply mistrusts the Palestinians

David Grossman, The Observer, 29 August 2010. Read the rest here.

…people live in inhumane conditions, without running water, without electricity… The state doesn’t provide the Bedouin [with] basic infrastructure

18 August 2010. Read the article here.