I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence.

In Israel, there is a peace camp that can convene 200,000 people in central square of this city, on very short notice, and there is a major movement among academics, politicians, thinkers, and public leaders for peace, even at a painful price. On the Palestinian side, you can find them individually here and there, but there is no public movement.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.