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"The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided."
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"If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail."
"In recent years - before the intifada - there were three or four incidents of anti-Semitism a year, and that's out of 18 million crimes and violations of the law."
"Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam."
"Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result."
"When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines."
"When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism."
"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."
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