The clear conclusion is—if Iran wants nuclear weapons, it will get them. But that doesn’t mean it will use them.

It took me a whole book to explain what went wrong (“Broken Spring,” Gefen, 2014), but the parallels with the Palestinians are striking.

This problem,,,may not have a solution, Nothing Israel can do, or would be permitted to do, would stop the barrages for long.

Frustrated by decades of Palestinian obstinacy, moderate Arab nations were finally moving to put the Israeli-Palestinian issue behind them.

"All I ask is that you respond in kind. If you can’t or don’t want to do that, feel free to unfriend me. Or I'll save you the trouble."

"After such efforts...anything less than 100.000 (demonstrators) would have been a failure."

"Yet Israelis keep voting on security, the the real issues are domestic, including relations with Diaspora Jews."