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" Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. "
Elliott Abrams
Power
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" 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. "
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" The Iron Dome is great for the U.S. "
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" 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. "
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" Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad. "
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" During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner. "
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" Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security. "
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" The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society. "
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" The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises. "
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" When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth. "
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" If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so. "
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" 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. "
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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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" In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times. "
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Years
House
" The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy. "
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" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "
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People
" Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure. "
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Dubai
" The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent. "
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" 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. "
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" Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington. "
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" 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. "
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Government
Support
" Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released. "
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Terrorists
Released
Get
" U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. "
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Honeymoon
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" Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. "
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Second
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" Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. "
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Made
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" While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads. "
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" Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media. "
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" The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known. "
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Well
" 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. "
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" Pessimism is rife in Israel. "
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" It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability. "
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