Elliott Abrams Quotes
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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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Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
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Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.
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It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
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The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.
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Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.
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Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.
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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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While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel.
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The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.
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In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.
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It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.
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The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.
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In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects.
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People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.
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If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions.
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The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.
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The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.
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I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.
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In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
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After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
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At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.
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The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.
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The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.