To resolve conflicts in the Middle East, the US must increase pain on Iran while demonstrating invulnerability to their threats.

“The formula is up the pain on the other side. Demonstrate your invulnerability on your own side. That's the entire formula.”

Diplomatic progress in the Middle East is best achieved through gift-giving and identifying common interests rather than focusing on past conflicts.

“I think the way to kind of move things forward is with elaborate giving of gifts. That feels like the right way to do it. That feel I don't think we should constantly litigate the past. No, no. I mean this this is like a big theme of mine. I don't think we should constantly keep unearthing and diggi”

Israeli society is experiencing a demographic shift toward far-right, ultra-Orthodox politics which threatens to reshape the nation's political future.

“It will inevitably turn Israel into a nation that is entirely comprised of Messianic inbred ultra-Orthodox psychopaths with a nuclear arsenal.”