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" In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected. "

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" 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

" You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces. "

" I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely. "

" The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known. "

" In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. "

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

" 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. "

" Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. "

Elliott Abrams

Caribbean

Republic

" In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact. "

" Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. "

" 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. "

" Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country. "

" In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror. "

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