I was bashing Israel in the past because nobody else was exposing its true record. Many people are doing it now, so I switched hats from a critic of Israel to a diplomat who wants to resolve the conflict. I have not changed, but I think the spectrum has moved.

DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.

The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.

If there were an Oscar for best theatrical performance by a country, Israel would win every year. It's a country based on theater. It's a lunatic state - completely insane.

How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.