I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.

We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.

Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.

I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy.

You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.

This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.