"The last six months has thrown me very hard back on to defending the existence of Israel, its historical connections to Jews in Europe and the Middle East before the 20th century, its origins as the political expression of a people who are in fact indigenous to Israel-Palestine."
"There’s no way to build something sustainable and dignified without both peoples having a state in which they have self-determination and citizenship."
Not read it yet, but: "to defending the existence of Israel" .. isn't the whole thing problem right now "israel eradicating palestine"? It's not about the existance of israel.