Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

When did America forget that it's America?

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

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.

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.

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

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.