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" Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism. "
Elliott Abrams
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Judaism
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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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" The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. "
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" The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there. "
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" 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. "
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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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Bank
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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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" 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
War
" Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech. "
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Speech
Off
Good
" If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so. "
Elliott Abrams
Freedom
Denial
Become
" The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure. "
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Early
Book
Good
" Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. "
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Far
Left
Worse
" The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint review of Jordan's needs and then act together to meet them. "
Elliott Abrams
Serious
Meet
Rebel
" America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom. "
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Care
America
Health
" Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it. "
Elliott Abrams
Pay
Congress
Attention
" Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier. "
Elliott Abrams
End
Will
Now
" 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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British
Days
Just
" Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America. "
Elliott Abrams
Men
America
Death
" There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story. "
Elliott Abrams
Story
Middle
Always
" I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus. "
Elliott Abrams
Would
Personally
Talk
" 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. "
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War
Policy
Just
" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "
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Size
New People
People
" The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite. "
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Army
Syrian
Divisions
" Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. "
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Power
Military
United
" It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you. "
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Impossible
Happy
View
" What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries. "
Elliott Abrams
Israel
Wants
Countries
" 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. "
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More
Elections
False
" Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled 'unclassified' or 'limited official use' and deal with mundane matters. "
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Deal
Matters
Mundane
" 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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Conflict
Support
Nationalism
" Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims. "
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Fear
Republic
Syria
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Before
Setbacks
American