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My ideology is not connected to the Palestinians.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.

I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.

I don't believe in any kind of fundamentalism.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground.

We have this powerful ideological basis to the country that I don't think any other country in the world quite can brag about. It's a very complicated nation, and it's very fertile.