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" America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom. "
Elliott Abrams
Care
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Health
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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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" 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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" While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes. "
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" Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country. "
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" Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life. "
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" The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them. "
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Great
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" Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. "
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" It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians. "
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" 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. "
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" Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. "
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Send
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" Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it. "
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" Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps be turned into something real. "
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" The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers. "
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Equipment
Tough
Soviet
" 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. "
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Days
Europe
Holocaust
" The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports. "
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Exports
Regime
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" In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact. "
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American
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" I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution. "
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First
" There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S. "
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" Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding - not wistful. "
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" During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner. "
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" It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go to the negotiating table by waiting to see if Arab League foreign ministers will let him take that step. "
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" If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened. "
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" It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain. "
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" People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't. "
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Them
People
" There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from many of us in the pro-Israel camp in the United States. "
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