‘Look there are people in this world who are crazy,’ a friend said to me the other day, ‘leave them to be crazy.’ Except the problem is that they won’t leave us in the comfort of our lives. That’s not the way the world works today. The Holy Land, that from Tel Aviv to the River Jordan, could fit within a small US state, is many, many thousands of miles from here. But, whether there is peace there or not, will affect our peace.

So: How to win? In summary, I would identify six elements to a successful strategy.