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Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

The increasing mistrust between the Arab-Muslim peoples and the western world is rooted in the conflict in Palestine.

Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.

Conflicts, even just ones, which in the end can come at the expense of the State of Israel, are things that we must be very cautious about and hold back on personally.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence, an anxiety of a common enemy... which is good.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

Without any doubt, the Iranian threat is the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War.

To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.