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" The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise. "
Elliott Abrams
Presence
Syria
Surprise
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" Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security. "
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Flexibility
Sense
Israel
" In Jordan, where the prime minister is always a commoner, the king has announced some new reforms that would tend to move the country toward a more democratic system: Notably, the prime minister would emerge from the victorious political party, not from back room conversations in the royal palace. "
Elliott Abrams
Party
King
Political
" There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit. "
Elliott Abrams
Israel
Over
Order
" Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim. "
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Population
Muslim
Sunni
" I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror. "
Elliott Abrams
Leaders
Call
Palestinian
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Leader
Travel
Job
" The Iron Dome is great for the U.S. "
Elliott Abrams
Dome
Iron
Great
" The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans. "
Elliott Abrams
Feelings
Sex
Over
" The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility. "
Elliott Abrams
Work
Against
Logic
" Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism. "
Elliott Abrams
About
Short
Judaism
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Goals
Grow
Me
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Identity
Child
Celebrate
" Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day. "
Elliott Abrams
Exports
Day
Million
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Freedom
Denial
Become
" Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. "
Elliott Abrams
About
Political
Memoir
" History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper. "
Elliott Abrams
May
Against
History
" The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country. "
Elliott Abrams
Country
War
Democracy
" Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. "
Elliott Abrams
Political Party
Party
Political
" The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene. "
Elliott Abrams
Positive
Negative
Victory
" It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability. "
Elliott Abrams
Long
Time
Realism
" 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
" Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking. "
Elliott Abrams
Government
Politics
Think
" Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom. "
Elliott Abrams
Model
Sure
Say
" 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
" Pessimism is rife in Israel. "
Elliott Abrams
Rife
Pessimism
Israel
" I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. "
Elliott Abrams
Never
Most
Idea
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
War
Policy
Just
" Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. "
Elliott Abrams
Gifts
Send
Rhetoric
" At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap. "
Elliott Abrams
Land
Bank
Leader
" Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits. "
Elliott Abrams
Today
Travel
Limits