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Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements.

I'm not a single-issue person, but I spend so much time on Israel because it is so unfairly condemned around the world.

No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Most Americans approach the problems of the Middle East with a pro-Israeli bias - and rightly so.

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.

There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from many of us in the pro-Israel camp in the United States.