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" A Palestinian state will never be created by terror. "
Elliott Abrams
State
Will
Terror
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" Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands. "
Elliott Abrams
Violence
Terrorism
Hope
" Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government. "
Elliott Abrams
Down
Change
Revolution
" The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. "
Elliott Abrams
Israel
Egypt
Depends
" The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem - which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel. "
Elliott Abrams
Long
Worthy
Country
" President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.' "
Elliott Abrams
Time
Clarity
Look
" Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. "
Elliott Abrams
Gifts
Send
Rhetoric
" At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready. "
Elliott Abrams
Height
War
Rights
" The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time. "
Elliott Abrams
Long
More
Long Time
" The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite. "
Elliott Abrams
Army
Syrian
Divisions
" Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. "
Elliott Abrams
World
Country
Modern
" The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid. "
Elliott Abrams
Help
Working
United
" Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. "
Elliott Abrams
Far
Left
Worse
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
General
Early
Speeches
" While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left. "
Elliott Abrams
Government
Democracy
Power
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
You
Yourself
Living
" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "
Elliott Abrams
Size
New People
People
" Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. "
Elliott Abrams
Population
Muslim
Sunni
" The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. "
Elliott Abrams
Feelings
Sex
Over
" The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments. "
Elliott Abrams
More
Elections
False
" Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters. "
Elliott Abrams
Deal
Matters
Mundane
" I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again, the thing to do is a one-time strike. Maybe a cruise missile strike at one or two of their air bases just so they know what they're going to gain from using chemical weapons on the battlefield. "
Elliott Abrams
Two
You
Try
" At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap. "
Elliott Abrams
Land
Bank
Leader
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Always
Family
Power
" One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. "
Elliott Abrams
Mood
Good
Israel
" Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. "
Elliott Abrams
Caribbean
More
Republic
" U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. "
Elliott Abrams
Image
Honeymoon
False
" Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism. "
Elliott Abrams
About
Short
Judaism
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Peace
Beginning
Mind
" It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals. "
Elliott Abrams
Goals
Grow
Me
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Stop
View
Someone