Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.

Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.

President Abbas and myself, we are the ones who signed the Oslo agreement, so we really know each other, not just theoretically.

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

The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.

It's a morality that keeps humans human.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.