It is to be regretted when internal considerations determine a counterproductive and irresponsible foreign policy.
Friendly governments do not act so as to undermine the national security of their friends, and do not presume to know better than their friends how they should contend with the many challenges they face. The Swedish government would do well to rethink its intention to act in this way towards its friend Israel.
Anti-Semitic insults by 'Svoboda' have caused outrage on number of occasions both in Ukraine and in Israel.
Every day, every week, you have another case of Israeli Arabs that are taking part in terrorist activity.
What you have in the Middle East is tension not between Jews and Arabs, not between Israelis and Palestinians, but between the radical wing and the moderate people.
I am the mainstream.
I am waiting for the day when the German Bundestag debates the violation of human rights in Saudi Arabia.
If, God forbid, a war with Iran breaks out, it will be a nightmare. And we will all be in it, including the Persian Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia. No one will remain unscathed.
I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.
I don't believe in the polls. I try to concentrate on the day of elections.
