The Palestinian conflict is the glass ceiling of Israel's economy.

Hamas's strategy is resistance and survival. As long as they survive, this is a victory.

The Iranians are abusing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to gain more support from radical elements in the region.

The state of Israel, and a government under me, will make it a strategic objective to topple the Hamas regime in Gaza. The means for doing this should be military, economic, and diplomatic.

When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.

When I served on active duty in the United States Air Force, one of my duties was to teach the Law of War.

In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.

If you told me back in my Army days that I could have bought the same weapon that I had been using in training, I would not have believed it.