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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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" On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days. "

Elliott Abrams

Human Rights

Silent

People

" 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. "

" Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country. "

" Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. "

" Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. "

" China has concluded that trade trumps all. "

" 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

Class

" The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society. "

" Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it. "

" 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. "

Elliott Abrams

Elections

False

" For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. "

" 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. "

" The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left. "

" The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security. "

" The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. "

" A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy. "

" U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. "

" 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. "

" Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech. "

" Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources. "

" The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States. "

" 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. "

" Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction? "

Elliott Abrams

Simple

Inaction

" People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't. "

" Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day. "

" The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment. "

" One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. "