The threats against Israel are growing.

It is hard to find a country friendlier to Israel than Canada these days. No other country in the world has demonstrated such a full understanding of us.

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

You cannot stop an Islamist tsunami by building a small island somewhere in the ocean.

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.

One of the fundamental pillars of international humanitarian law is that proper distinction should be made between military targets and civilians. That is why indiscriminate bombing, let alone the deliberate targeting of residential areas or agricultural infrastructure, is considered a war crime.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.