The Necessity of Exile Quotes

“It was there that I understood what long-time leader at the Jewish National Fund and lifelong Zionist Yosef Weitz said long ago in his diary (popularized in the 2021 film Blue Box): “The Arabs will never forgive us for what we have done to them.”
― Shaul Magid, The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance

“Liberal Zionism is a failure on liberal grounds if it cannot offer those who live within Israel’s borders the very same rights of self-determination that Zionism claims for”
― Shaul Magid, The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance

“extremes are working in tandem to undermine the liberal Zionist middle which, unable to offer any realistic solution, ends up passively tolerating the occupation (one new liberal Zionist euphemism is “shrinking the occupation”)—another unwitting affirmation of the BDS movement. As the historical window for an equitable two-state solution closes, and the middle ground continues to shrink, what is a liberal Zionist to do?”
― Shaul Magid, The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance