From last night’s Fox News All-Stars.

On a prospective re-opening of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations by the end of September:

The whole delay in the peace process is a self-inflicted wound of the Obama administration. Let’s remember that for over a year, the previous prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, had been negotiating with the head of the Palestinians and made an astonishingly generous offer in December of ‘08, which the Palestinians refused, as they always refuse.
So Obama comes in and instead of picking up and trying to get the Palestinians to moderate, what does he do? He attacks Netanyahu. He tries to make an issue of settlements, which had been in consensus — the U.S. and Israelis had agreed: no new settlements, no new expansion of territory in [existing] settlements and dismantling of illegal settlements.
And the Palestinians had accepted that, had never refused negotiations [under these conditions]… But then Obama adds a condition of no thickening of settlements, i.e., you don’t construct a kindergarten if children are born, which the Israelis have rejected.
And all of a sudden the Palestinians and Arabs have said: No negotiations until Israel jumps through this higher hoop.
So the Arabs and Palestinians have said: We are not going to move. We’re going to let Obama extract unilateral concessions out of the Israelis, and that is why the process has stopped.

On Dick Cheney vs. the White House on interrogations:

I think there really has been a shift in public opinion, and I think the I.G. report has reflected that quite strongly.
Look, the liberal position was inherently implausible. The position was: Enhanced interrogation — torture, if you like — doesn’t work.
[But] intuitively everybody knows that everybody has a breaking point.
Then you get the I.G. report, which tells you in black and white that Khalid Sheik Mohammed said nothing of interest or importance until he was subjected to the simulated drowning and the sleep deprivation. And then he became a professor on Al Qaeda with a chalkboard. And that happened to several others.
And then people have to say — liberals have to say — it’s a coincidence that he didn’t say anything before, and spoke after. It’s coincidence that there were no attacks in eight years.
Cheney is winning on this because it is intuitively and empirically obvious that these techniques have worked and saved many American lives.