So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.

There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by the importance of colonialism in Europe's past. So for Europeans we are like Belgiums in the Congo, or the French in Alger, or the British in India. Strange interlopers in somebody else's land. But in fact, we [Israeli] have been here for 4,000 years. This is our ancestral homeland.

I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

The US-Israel partnership transcends politics and it always will