'The Right to Live As a Natural Right'

Saul Bellow in To Jerusalem and Back (1976):

“What you do know is that there is one fact of Jewish life unchanged by the creation of a Jewish state: you cannot take your right to live for granted. Others can; you cannot. This is not to say that everyone else is living pleasantly and well under a decent regime. No, it means only that the Jews, because they are Jews, have never been able to take the right to live as a natural right.”

The book's closing sentence:

"But the eagerness to kill for political ends--or to justify killing for such ends--is as keen now as it ever was."