I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

However you define territorial ambitions, it need not be a country that's right next to the U.S. for it to exercise its extraterritorial or territorial ambitions.

There are people who are saying that they voted twice for Mr. Obama and they are now feeling a great sense of regret, not only over Guantanamo, etc., but now perhaps the entry into a new war in West Asia.

Over the last two or so decades, there's been an increase in thinking among the Left, liberals, intellectuals in the direction of so-called spontaneity. In other words that uprisings happen spontaneously, people are frustrated, angry, then they spontaneously rise up. And what they don't require is preparation, or what we used to call leadership.

It's Israelis who are ready to abandon the hard work of peace.