Ehud Barak — Israeli Statesman born on February 12, 1942,

Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001. He was leader of the Labor Party until January 2011. He previously held the posts of Minister of Defense and Deputy Prime Minister in Benjamin Netanyahu's second government from 2009 to 2013... (wikipedia)

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.
If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations.
I don't do anything to impress anyone, quite successfully I can tell you.
Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability.
Since the Six-Day War, the whole world, which is the real arena of battle between us and the Palestinians, believes that Israel is right in regard to procedure, namely problems and disputes should be solved around the negotiating table.