Tony Judt - The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn ...

Tony Judt Zitate

The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.

Tony Judt

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Die Menschen, deren Nacken weh tun, wenn ich über den Nahen Osten schreibe, leben meist in Brooklyn oder Boca Raton: der Zionist, der einen anderen Mann bezahlt, der für ihn in Israel lebt. Ich habe nichts als Verachtung für solche Leute.

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