The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel is stronger today than ever.

Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.