Ehud Barak

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

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

Leadership can change its mind leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced.

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.

Israel is the strongest nation in the Middle East, but we have to apply our strength wisely.

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.

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

If I were a Palestinian at the right age, I would have joined one of the terrorist organizations at a certain stage.