“We know that, if need be, we could pick up and move tomorrow to a state with an army and nuclear weapons.
This sense of security that the existence of Israel provides cannot be overstated.
It makes life in an uncertain Brooklyn or Toulouse possible.
Anyone who denies this, I believe, is lying to you or to themselves.”
FROM: How to fight anti-Semitism (chapter 6, page 193)
by Bari Weiss, published by Crown in year 2019
in New York, ISBN 9780593136058 & ISBN 0593136055