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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. "

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" In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace. "

Elliott Abrams

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King

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" The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy. "

" Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism. "

" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. "

" The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. "

" You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces. "

" The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure. "

" President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause. "

" America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom. "

" Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. "

" What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries. "

" Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them. "

Elliott Abrams

Beat

Wait

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society. "

" Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there. "

" I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved. "

" 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

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False

" From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews. "

" The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player. "

" Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. "

" Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront. "

" 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. "

" Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. "

" The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility. "

" Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. "

" The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai. "

" The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003. "

" In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off. "

" 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. "