Ari Shavit Quotes

Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened.

Ari Shavit

• Nation
• Israel
• Threatened

I think that good things will happen in the Middle East, in Israel, and to American progressive Jewry only if we work together to save a progressive Israel that progressive Americans can have affinity with again.

Ari Shavit

• Together
• Progressive
• Affinity

At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.

Ari Shavit

• Century
• Jews
• Victims

We are still a people in danger. And yet I urge us not to get addicted to it.

Ari Shavit

• People
• Danger
• Addicted

We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.

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• Success
• Violence
• Victims

I thought of reaching out for progressive Israelis, progressive Americans, progressive American Jews - this was probably my main mission.

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• Mission
• Jews
• Reaching

They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.

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• Responsibility
• Maturity
• Revolutionary

I think we need a life-loving Palestine living by a Jewish democratic Israel.

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• Democratic
• Jewish
• Palestine

Ironically, the people who do not need Israel are gradually taking over Israel, and they're actually pushing out people who so need it.

Ari Shavit

• Need
• Israel
• Pushing Out

From whence have we come,” he asked, “and how far have we fallen?

Ari Shavit

• Come
• Fallen