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It seems unavoidable that history will always link the reestablishment of the State of Israel with the tragedy of the Holocaust.

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

My father's family was mostly obliterated in the Holocaust, and I grew up very much with the sense that the central moral and political question is how do we prevent these things from happening again.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

What I'm trying to say is the Holocaust was a horrific crime against humanity and frankly, I would never want to see that repeated.