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" It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians. "
Elliott Abrams
Govern
Palestinians
Israel
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" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. "
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" Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiator. "
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" The Iron Dome is great for the U.S. "
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Iron
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" China has concluded that trade trumps all. "
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Concluded
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" I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change. "
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" If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened. "
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" 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. "
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Against
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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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Down
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Revolution
" The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace. "
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Standards
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" I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again, the thing to do is a one-time strike. Maybe a cruise missile strike at one or two of their air bases just so they know what they're going to gain from using chemical weapons on the battlefield. "
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Two
You
Try
" Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them. "
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Beat
Wait
He
" The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid. "
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Help
Working
United
" On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East. "
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Office
East
Middle
" 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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Trade
Resources
American
" We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab - construction in the capital city. "
Elliott Abrams
Growth
Construction
City
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Down
Meeting
Group
" 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. "
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Bridge
Acting
Change
" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "
Elliott Abrams
Ahead
Way
State
" The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. "
Elliott Abrams
Israel
Egypt
Depends
" Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits. "
Elliott Abrams
Today
Travel
Limits
" After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. "
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Context
See
Terrorism
" Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad? "
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Believe
Anyone
Scares
" 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
" Four years is a long time in politics. "
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Politics
Time
Long Time
" The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. "
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Good
Men
Service
" When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. "
Elliott Abrams
Protect
United States
United
" Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end. "
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End
Quick
Been
" Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad. "
Elliott Abrams
Kerry
Fooled
Senator
" I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved. "
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President
Israel
Views
" While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel. "
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Care
Kind
Important