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Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.
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Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.
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The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
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Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.
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Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.
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The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.
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Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.
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Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
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First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
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The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.
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Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources.
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Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
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In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.
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Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiator.
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American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
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I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.
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The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006.
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Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life.
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Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem.
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Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.
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Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters.
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A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.
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Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.
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Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad.
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