Ari Shavit Quotes

[For the settler movement, it has been a historic defeat.] It was a blow, in the sense that they failed to frighten off the government, and it was proven that it could be done... They are also facing a deep theological crisis, because their rabbinical leadership made very messianic and irresponsible promises about how it would not happen and were proven wrong. They've had a really lethal clash with reality.

- Ari Shavit

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It was a blow, in the sense that they failed to frighten off the government, and it was proven that it could be done. They are also facing a deep theological crisis, because their rabbinical leadership made very messianic and irresponsible promises about how it would not happen and were proven wrong. They've had a really lethal clash with reality. - Ari Shavit

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. - Ari Shavit

The project of dividing the land is going to be Israel's central national enterprise in the coming decade. It will determine whether we have a future here. It will determine whether we will live or die. - Ari Shavit