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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.

Although my stance on responsible citizenship made sense to many Israelis, the intelligentsia could not, as you say in English, get their heads around it. 'Racist' and 'fascist' were the knee-jerk reactions.

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.

But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands in their trousers' pockets will also want to dwell in our beautiful home.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.