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" The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East and discussions with officials and analysts there. "

Elliott Abrams

Chance

Short

Middle

" 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. "

" The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint review of Jordan's needs and then act together to meet them. "

" 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. "

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

" Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough, sweet, angry, thoughtful, demanding - not wistful. "

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

" Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. "

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

" I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him. "

" 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. "

" There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro. "

" I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change. "

" 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. "

" There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua. "

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

" People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't. "

" Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. "

" Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president traveled to the State Department to announce the appointment of George Mitchell as his Middle East peace negotiator. "

" 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. "

" China has concluded that trade trumps all. "

" The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time. "

Elliott Abrams

Long

Long Time

" 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. "

" The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner. "

" 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 Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left. "

" 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. "

" There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from many of us in the pro-Israel camp in the United States. "

Elliott Abrams

Society

Class

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