"A wounded and fearful country, Israel is mired  in the greatest crisis of its turbulent history, brought about in large measure by the indefensible policy of steadily increasing and reinforcing settlements in the territories won after its victory in the Arab war on Israel in 1967. The decision of successive Israeli governments to retain control over the West Bank and their Palestinian neighbors, is a catastrophe –moral, human, and political– for both peoples. The Palestinians need a sovereign Palestinian state. That Israel lives under constant threat to its very existence is indisputable, but no one who cares about Israel should wish it to survive whatever the means. A particular debt of gratitude is owed to courageous Israeli Jews such as Amira Hass who have born witness to the increasingly cruel terms of Israeli military occupation and settler annexation. Amira Hass speaks on behalf of justice; in speaking of the sufferings and the rights of people in despair, she defends the true interests of Israel."

–Susan Sontag