My theory is that security - also against terror - can only be accomplished through global democratization.

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul.

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.