I, too, want to express my gratitude to Mishkenot Sha'ananim and to Ms. Karin Moses for their organization of this Conference and for their accommodating hospitality, and to Prof. Igor Primoratz of the Hebrew University for his thoughtful invitation to me to participate and for his almost inexhaustible patience in waiting for my paper.

I should mention also the pleasure of being with so many distinguished scholars from Israel, Europe and America, some of them old comrades (or antagonists) in the work for social justice, all of them, I fear, the intellectual betters of someone who, like myself, is (as it were) a professional activist rather than a systematic thinker. I am honoured to be in their company.