We had absolute military superiority but they had absolute political supremacy. That led to a stalemate - and that became the governing issue.

Well, I would - if they realized that we - again if - if we led them back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they they couldn't afford it, that would ho

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

What is the alternative? ... There is no alternative. The only alternative you can give is stalemate.

This clears the stalemate we have had in terms of process,

political process which had been led by occupiers and their collaborators.