We should not sit back. We have to strengthen our efforts to explain Europe, and that nationalism has always failed in European history, and has brought many wars.

We should think very hard whether it makes sense to continue the talks under such circumstances. A grand coalition without Merkel at the top is completely unthinkable.

We are convinced a Christian Democratic-led government in Germany and a centre-right coalition in Poland will lead to a clear improvement in German-Polish relations.

My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews could have Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabic to the Arabs. spoken on the Terry Gross Show .. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace group Peace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.