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" The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace. "

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" 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. "

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

" President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq. "

" 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. "

" The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. "

" If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true. "

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

" It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians. "

" Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. "

" 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. "

" Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps be turned into something real. "

" Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. "

" Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them. "

" China has concluded that trade trumps all. "

" The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO. "

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

" Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources. "

" Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad? "

" For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies. "

" The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home. "

" Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront. "

" At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away. "

" I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus. "

" 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. "

" The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite. "

" The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. "

" Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure. "

" From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews. "

" 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. "