Elliott Abrams Quotes
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America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.
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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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In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.
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Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and Israel.
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After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
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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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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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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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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
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If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.
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The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.
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The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not.
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History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
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While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
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I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.
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Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.
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The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
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When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.
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Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.
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The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.
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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
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Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
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The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.
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The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.