Elliott Abrams Quotes
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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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What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
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It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.
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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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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 intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
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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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The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.
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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.
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When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.
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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
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After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
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America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
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I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.
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The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.
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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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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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Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.
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The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.
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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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George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.
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Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing.
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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.