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" Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad. "

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" Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. "

" 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. "

" Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together. "

" For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing. "

" Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. "

" The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers. "

" The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation. "

" The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise. "

" 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. "

" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "

" Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released. "

" Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington. "

" Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. "

" Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through. "

" There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending. "

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

" 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. "

" Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security. "

" Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. "

" While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left. "

" Pessimism is rife in Israel. "

" People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't. "

" Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day. "

" 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. "

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

" There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S. "

" As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt. "

" In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. "

" 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. "