Isaac Asimov:
I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is
simply assumed that I have. Well, I don’t travel. I really don’t, and
if I did, I probably wouldn’t visit Israel. I remember how it was in
1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were
ecstatic, I was not. I said:
What are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a
small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor
forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled.
I was laughed at, but I was right. I can’t help but feel that the Jews
didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory only because
2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living
there. History moves on and you can’t really turn it back.