Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.