What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.