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" American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world. "
Elliott Abrams
Today
Cold
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" If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock. "
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" Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human rights. Its slow reaction in June 2009 to the stealing of the election in Iran and the birth of the 'Green Movement' there, and its delay in backing the rebellions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, are evidence of this problem. "
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" Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction? "
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" 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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" You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution. "
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" Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that the region will not be a source of terrorism against Israel, as Gaza and South Lebanon became when Israel left there. "
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" The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. "
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" Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington. "
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" Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia. "
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" There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending. "
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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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American
" America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult. "
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" Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. "
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" Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it. "
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" For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. "
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" Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas. "
Elliott Abrams
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Turf
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" The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror. "
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Government
Support
" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. "
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Remember
Middle
Past
" The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene. "
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Negative
Victory
" Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. "
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Cabinet
Made
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" 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. "
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" The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. "
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" The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society. "
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Never
" At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away. "
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Always
" You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas. "
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" Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure. "
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" 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. "
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" If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting. "
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Meeting
Group
" 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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Fear
" 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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