“Israel is not after solving its nuclear dilemma with Iran. It is after solving its Iran dilemma, which is that this state is too big, it’s too powerful, it’s too influential, it’s too capable .”
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51