No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.