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" The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known. "
Elliott Abrams
Ancient
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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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" The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy. "
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" A Palestinian state will never be created by terror. "
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" Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. "
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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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" I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change. "
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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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" Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims. "
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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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" American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world. "
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" The Pope is not a political figure. "
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" Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. "
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" If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting. "
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" 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. "
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New
Now
" Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it. "
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" 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. "
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Great
" The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem - which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel. "
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" The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers. "
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Tough
Soviet
" Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. "
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Party
Political
" Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria. Response? Nothing. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. "
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" The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics. "
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" Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. "
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" The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite. "
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" It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals. "
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" Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them. "
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