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" Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together. "
Elliott Abrams
Realize
Together
Problem
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" 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
" The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time. "
Elliott Abrams
Long
More
Long Time
" The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. "
Elliott Abrams
Whatever
Good
Democracy
" Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. "
Elliott Abrams
Political Party
Party
Political
" After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. "
Elliott Abrams
Context
See
Terrorism
" Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. "
Elliott Abrams
American
Alone
Change
" The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive. "
Elliott Abrams
Respect
Foundation
Politics
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Days
Europe
Holocaust
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Society
Us
Class
" The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise. "
Elliott Abrams
Presence
Syria
Surprise
" 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
" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "
Elliott Abrams
Ahead
Way
State
" It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians. "
Elliott Abrams
Govern
Palestinians
Israel
" In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign leaders across the table - do. They are not keeping secrets from us, but from two other groups: their enemies and their subjects. "
Elliott Abrams
Enemies
Two
Us
" China has concluded that trade trumps all. "
Elliott Abrams
Trade
Concluded
China
" 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
" I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him. "
Elliott Abrams
Long
Human Rights
Life
" When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it. "
Elliott Abrams
You
Go
Defend
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Trade
Resources
American
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Leader
Travel
Job
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Focused
Self-Centered
United
" The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. "
Elliott Abrams
Feelings
Sex
Over
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
West
Terrorism
Left
" There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S. "
Elliott Abrams
Muslim
" Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end. "
Elliott Abrams
End
Quick
Been
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Model
Sure
Say
" On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East. "
Elliott Abrams
Office
East
Middle
" 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
" Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one. "
Elliott Abrams
Special
True
Target
" The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there. "
Elliott Abrams
Place
United
Trade