Jeffrey Sachs

God gave it to us.

It's nobody else's and everyone else has to get the hell out.

I'm not sure exactly what motivates it, but there's a complete collapse of religion.

understanding that there are people to talk to that actually want to make peace.

Well, I can explain the exchange and I can also say that there are two variants of Israeli extremism that are not the same, but they are now literally a coalition.

I mean, they're literally a political coalition and they are a ideological coalition as well.

So one is the view

Every generation, they're out to kill us.

We have to kill them before they kill us.

The preemptive strike, the clean break idea.

But again, grounded in this perverse, maybe related idea that there will never be a Palestine alongside an Israel, which is actually what led to...

clean break, led to all these wars, led to the militancy, was the absence of Palestinian political rights alongside Israeli political rights, the so-called two-state solution.

And since Netanyahu's party, Likud, going back to its opening charter in 1977, said there will never be

a Palestinian state, nothing to talk about, no terms, no security arrangements to make it possible.

This will all be Israel's sovereignty from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.

There was never a basis for

a diplomatic way out within Israel from Netanyahu's point of view.

Now, there's a second variant in Israel which gives a theological interpretation of this.

Netanyahu's interpretation is mainly security and

and secular with the only theological twinge being this idea that they're always out to kill us every generation.