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On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
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Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.
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There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.
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I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.
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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.
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When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.
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The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.
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People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.
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Four years is a long time in politics.
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When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.
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Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas.
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Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.
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The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.
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For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.
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The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
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The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.
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Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.
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It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.
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Tunisia is small - just ten million, no great natural resources.
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What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
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Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.
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There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.
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There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.
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The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.
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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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There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.
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Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
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Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?
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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.
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One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be.
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Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.
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The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.
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It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.
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Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released.
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Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad.
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First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.
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The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006.
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Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.
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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.
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The Iron Dome is great for the U.S.
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You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas.
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While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
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Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
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Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.
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Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.
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There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
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Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.
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China has concluded that trade trumps all.
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Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.
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Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.
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I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.
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America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
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I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror.
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Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.
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The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time.
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Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash.
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If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.
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Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
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The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
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The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.
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In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off.
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The Pope is not a political figure.
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The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.
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Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.
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You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.
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I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
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U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.
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The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
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The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.
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I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about.
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Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.
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Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.
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Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.
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Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
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Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.
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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.
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The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.
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A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.
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In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times.
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America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.
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As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
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You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.
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Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.
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