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" Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. "
Elliott Abrams
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" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Identity
Child
Celebrate
" For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing. "
Elliott Abrams
Saying
Doing
Everything
" For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies. "
Elliott Abrams
Freedom
Nature
Political
" 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 Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home. "
Elliott Abrams
Down
Peace
Israel
" Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. "
Elliott Abrams
Free
Open
Matter
" History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper. "
Elliott Abrams
May
Against
History
" While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left. "
Elliott Abrams
Government
Democracy
Power
" The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics. "
Elliott Abrams
Achievement
World
Son
" 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
" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "
Elliott Abrams
Ahead
Way
State
" I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. "
Elliott Abrams
Never
Most
Idea
" Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and Israel. "
Elliott Abrams
Target
Egypt
Tourist
" Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington. "
Elliott Abrams
Washington
Never
Much
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
War
Policy
Just
" 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
" Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. "
Elliott Abrams
Wall
Second
Temple
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Long
Worthy
Country
" George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly. "
Elliott Abrams
System
Compromise
Hard
" Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad? "
Elliott Abrams
Believe
Anyone
Scares
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Chance
Short
Middle
" You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution. "
Elliott Abrams
Action
Looking
See
" When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. "
Elliott Abrams
Protect
United States
United
" Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. "
Elliott Abrams
Stealing
Real
Money
" The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO. "
Elliott Abrams
Down
Together
Pressure
" On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66. "
Elliott Abrams
Healthy
Justice
Age
" I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror. "
Elliott Abrams
Leaders
Call
Palestinian
" Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set. "
Elliott Abrams
Big Brother
Own
Judging
" There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua. "
Elliott Abrams
Going
Way
People
" Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. "
Elliott Abrams
Population
Muslim
Sunni