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" If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true. "

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" In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely. "

Elliott Abrams

Weakness

American

Struggle

" I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats. "

" It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability. "

" There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution. "

" I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. "

" Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. "

" The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. "

" Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us. "

" The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003. "

" It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go to the negotiating table by waiting to see if Arab League foreign ministers will let him take that step. "

" 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. "

" Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. "

Elliott Abrams

Collective

Politics

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

" 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. "

" During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic. "

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

" 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. "

" When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. "

" The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf. "

" The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy. "

" Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims. "

" You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas. "

" The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace. "

" The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy. "

" Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. "

" While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads. "