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The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.

Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

We know that 99.9% of Arab-Israelis are loyal to Israel.

And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs.