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" The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy. "
Elliott Abrams
Politics
Now
Long
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" Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security. "
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" The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. "
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" A Palestinian state will never be created by terror. "
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" Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. "
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" I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground. "
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" Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. "
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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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" When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond. "
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" If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions. "
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" 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. "
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Family
Power
" Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas. "
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Turf
Ideas
" The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy. "
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" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "
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Way
State
" Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech. "
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Speech
Off
Good
" Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government. "
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Great
Head
Government
" 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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United States
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" Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. "
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" Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. "
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Alone
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" The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there. "
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Short
Middle
" 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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" The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite. "
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" In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter. "
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" The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. "
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" I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus. "
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" The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known. "
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Well
" Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. "
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" I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution. "
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Guy
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" Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands. "
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