The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

My first name, Benjamin, dates back a thousand years earlier to Benjamin - Binyamin - the son of Jacob, who was also known as Israel. Jacob and his 12 sons roamed these same hills of Judea and Samaria 4,000 years ago, and there's been a continuous Jewish presence in the land ever since.

The people of Israel have come home never to be uprooted again.

Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

I told John Kerry and General Allen, the Americans’ expert, ‘We live here, I live here, I know what we need to ensure the security of Israel’s people.’

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.