If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.

At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.

For three years now, probably more, there is a clear common interest developed between Israel and the leading Sunni moderate entities. The Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan. And the common interest is to block radical Muslim terror, to counter the Iranian hegemonic and nuclear intentions, and to join hands in a huge infrastructure project from water, energy, transportation, whatever, in the whole Middle East.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena; you have to come close enough that your face would ready the face of the other guy; and the price is that he can reach your face.

Geopolitics needs not just rhetoric, not just certain instincts, not just political skillful manipulation; it needs vision and what the Germans call erdung - you have to be connected to the ground always. You cannot float on your wishful thinking and hope that some miracles will become reality.