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" The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. "
Elliott Abrams
British
Days
Just
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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. "
Elliott Abrams
Security
Without
Power
" In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off. "
Elliott Abrams
Elected
His
Philippines
" There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S. "
Elliott Abrams
Muslim
" The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them. "
Elliott Abrams
Building
Great
Effort
" The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society. "
Elliott Abrams
Living
American
Never
" A Palestinian state will never be created by terror. "
Elliott Abrams
State
Will
Terror
" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. "
Elliott Abrams
Remember
Middle
Past
" An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure. "
Elliott Abrams
Three
People
Great
" The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment. "
Elliott Abrams
Bible
Gifts
Story
" Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. "
Elliott Abrams
Stealing
Real
Money
" While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray. "
Elliott Abrams
Used
Politics
Free
" In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates - with North Korean help. This reactor was a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program. "
Elliott Abrams
Intelligence
Building
Help
" Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington. "
Elliott Abrams
Washington
Never
Much
" If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock. "
Elliott Abrams
You
Back
Clock
" After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. "
Elliott Abrams
Context
See
Terrorism
" There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending. "
Elliott Abrams
Nations
United Nations
United
" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "
Elliott Abrams
Size
New People
People
" Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them. "
Elliott Abrams
Beat
Wait
He
" Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech. "
Elliott Abrams
Speech
Off
Good
" Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it. "
Elliott Abrams
Pay
Congress
Attention
" 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
" In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. "
Elliott Abrams
Embarrassing
Admission
Technological
" Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy. "
Elliott Abrams
End
Construction
Decision
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Influence
Government
Support
" The Iron Dome is great for the U.S. "
Elliott Abrams
Dome
Iron
Great
" The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports. "
Elliott Abrams
Exports
Regime
Quite
" Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. "
Elliott Abrams
Caribbean
More
Republic
" Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released. "
Elliott Abrams
Terrorists
Released
Get
" 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
" At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away. "
Elliott Abrams
Moment
Mob
Always