I’ve never thought much of Joe Nye’s writings on soft power. - Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Well, you’re going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

I really don't have a solution. Except to say that a precondition for any solution must be a recognition on the part of all parties on the legitimacy of all parties. That is you cannot build a political agreement on the premise that a Jewish state in Palestine is illegitimate.