- Noam Chomsky: Now *we* are not going to be cast in jail, and we aren't going be tortured, and we are not facing what people in the occupied territories are facing. And if we decide we wanna do it, fine... but then try to look yourself in the mirror and say, "I'm a murderer."
- Richard Falk: The unpleasant and unavoidable comparison is with South-Africa during the Apartheid period. And - having visited S.A. - I must say, that they were much better off than the Palestinians living in refugee camps.