Ehud Barak

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.