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" While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions of any kind would be harmful to Israel. "
Elliott Abrams
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" Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it. "
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" 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. "
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Europe
Holocaust
" 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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Travel
Job
" People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't. "
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Lying
Them
People
" I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change. "
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Going
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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
" While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes. "
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Trade
Resources
American
" The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror. "
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Influence
Government
Support
" 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
" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. "
Elliott Abrams
Remember
Middle
Past
" The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive. "
Elliott Abrams
Respect
Foundation
Politics
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
You
Back
Clock
" Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security. "
Elliott Abrams
Flexibility
Sense
Israel
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Freedom
Nature
Political
" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "
Elliott Abrams
Ahead
Way
State
" The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. "
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British
Days
Just
" Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia. "
Elliott Abrams
Before
Setbacks
American
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End
Will
Now
" The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. "
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Been
Politics
Religion
" The Iron Dome is great for the U.S. "
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Dome
Iron
Great
" 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. "
Elliott Abrams
Impact
American
Kind
" The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor. "
Elliott Abrams
Obligation
Been
Charity
" I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely. "
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She
Time
Free
" 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. "
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Party
King
Political
" While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left. "
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Government
Democracy
Power
" The devastation of the ancient Christian community in Iraq is well known. "
Elliott Abrams
Ancient
Community
Well