真相是，每一方都明白他們在為族群存活而戰。一方有刀和手槍；另一方有秘密特工和法庭。雙方都不斷向世界呼喊對方有多邪惡，但當他們四眼相對⋯⋯ 他們說的卻有所不同：為了生存，我將不惜一切代價。
—湯馬斯．佛里曼（猶太裔美國記者）
“The truth was, each side understood they were in a war for communal survival. One side had knives and pistols; the other had secret agents and courts. While each constantly cried out to the world how evil the other was, when they looked one another in the eye… they said something different: I will do whatever I have to to survive.”
—Thomas Loren Friedman, Jewish U.S. reporter
