Karen Lee Bar-Sinai Quotes

We can either grow together or grow apart. At the moment we are growing apart.

Identities reside in relations with others: you-me and us-them, and identities center on boundaries separating us from them.

Toward the Palestinians, Israel can only give. But when dealing with the entire Arab world, Israel can get a lot.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.

Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.

What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.

There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad. All initiatives, proposals, and international conferences are a waste of time and vain endeavors.

Nations, like small communities, are in danger of becoming provincial, and must become so, unless they exchange commodities, theories, thoughts, and ideals. Isolation is the soil of ignorance, and ignorance is the soil of egotism; and nations, like individuals who live apart, mistake provincialism for perfection, and hatred of all other nations for patriotism.

A nation cannot choose its neighbors.

We are two nations.