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" Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country. "
Elliott Abrams
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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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" 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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" After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. "
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" There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit. "
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" U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. "
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Honeymoon
False
" It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you. "
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Happy
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" The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006. "
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Dubai
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World
" 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. "
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Conflict
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Nationalism
" 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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Freedom
Denial
Become
" As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt. "
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America
Words
Peace
" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. "
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Remember
Middle
Past
" 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. "
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United
Want
Same
" Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life. "
Elliott Abrams
Leader
Travel
Job
" Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to build there. "
Elliott Abrams
Left
Israel
Government
" 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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Politics
Now
Long
" Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. "
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American
Alone
Change
" Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction? "
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Simple
Inaction
More
" In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end. "
Elliott Abrams
Always
Family
Power
" The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known. "
Elliott Abrams
Ancient
Community
Well
" Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it. "
Elliott Abrams
Pay
Congress
Attention
" 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
" Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. "
Elliott Abrams
About
Political
Memoir
" Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. "
Elliott Abrams
Free
Open
Matter
" 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
Us
Class
" Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. "
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Gap
Security
Used
" 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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Obligation
Been
Charity
" A Palestinian state will never be created by terror. "
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State
Will
Terror
" 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. "
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Party
King
Political
" The Pope is not a political figure. "
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Pope
Figure
Political
" The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began under Pres. George W. Bush at the very end of 2003. "
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Terrorism
Support
Enemy