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" We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab - construction in the capital city. "

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" Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that the region will not be a source of terrorism against Israel, as Gaza and South Lebanon became when Israel left there. "

" Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country. "

" Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. "

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

" 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. "

" One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be. "

" Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy. "

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

" The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. "

" Pessimism is rife in Israel. "

" Syria's population is 74% Sunni 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. "

" 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. "

" Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized and their cemeteries and holy places have been desecrated. It is government policy to incite hatred of Bahais in the official media. "

" 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. "

" Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. "

" America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult. "

" Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government. "

" In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times. "

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

" In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact. "

" Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through. "

" 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. "

" Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. "

" 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. "

" Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career. "

" Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America. "

" The Iron Dome is great for the U.S. "

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