Anyone who has a simplistic idea about the Middle East, or about the conflict, doesn't get it - because there are no simple answers. And anyone who is messianic, in a right-wing way or a left-wing way, is wrong too.… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
I think that good things will happen in the Middle East, in Israel, and to American progressive Jewry only if we work together to… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
I think we need a life-loving Palestine living by a Jewish democratic Israel. — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
“Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people.” — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
We are still a people in danger. And yet I urge us not to get addicted to it. — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
Israel is very confusing because it seems to be a Goliath, and in some ways it is, when you look at the tanks versus… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding… — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
I thought of reaching out for progressive Israelis, progressive Americans, progressive American Jews - this was probably my main mission. — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success. — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
“surreal, man-made miracle. The winter of 1921 is vicious. The valley winds” — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
“Lost were the depths and riches of the Jewish soul. But the revolutionary Hebrew identity was imperative if the Zionist revolution was to prevail.” — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
