“Why, I am sure, if they plead, thou wilt not take
Gaza: what’s that good for?”

“An end to their incessant attacks. And if it will feed nothing else,
it will feed our revenge. They have disgraced us, and
murdered our children by torture; laughed at our losses,
mocked at our gains, scorned our nation, thwarted our
alliances, cooled our friends, heated our
enemies; denied us peace; and what’s their reason? We are Jews. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Muslim is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Muslim,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Muslim
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Muslim example? Why, revenge. The villainy they
teach us, we will execute, and it shall go hard but we
will better the instruction.”