And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.

Why cross and ocean when you can cross a river? Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here?

I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.

Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?