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People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.
Elliott Abrams
Government
People
Entitled
Believe
Lying
Constantly
Them
I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
Elliott Abrams
First
Revolution
Be The First
Guy
Reverse
Want
Communist
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.
Elliott Abrams
Government
Democracy
Fight
Power
Group
Our
States
Extremism
Claims
Critics
Seem
Both
Left
American
Any
Suspicious
Influence
While
Against
Use
Hard
Assertion
United
United States
Right
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
Elliott Abrams
Leadership
Peace
Words
Doubt
Pay
Penalty
About
Seems
Never
America
Any
Process
Peace Process
Seriousness
Palestinian
Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.
Elliott Abrams
Made
Believe
Would
Proposal
Cabinet
Accepted
Governing
His
Jerusalem
It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.
Elliott Abrams
Good
Israel
Govern
Palestinians
Millions
What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
Elliott Abrams
Peace
Arab
Arab Countries
Countries
Israel
Wants
Acknowledgment
On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.
Elliott Abrams
President
President Barack Obama
Settlements
East
Obama
Put
Taking
Policy
Israeli
Office
Middle
Middle East
Center
Barack
Barack Obama
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.
Elliott Abrams
Time
Jews
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Enthusiastic
About
Days
Until
Led
Movement
Which
Century
Holocaust
Europe
Zionist
Orthodox
Earliest
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.
Elliott Abrams
Tehran
Embassy
Complicity
Attack
Parliament
Voted
Days
Came
Iranian
Ambassador
Official
Expel
Just
After
Therefore
British
Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.
Elliott Abrams
Day
About
Iran
Barrels
Exports
Million
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
Decision
Liberate
Free
Way
Dangers
Over
Around
Israel
Prisoners
Contradictions
Order
Inherent
Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas.
Elliott Abrams
Political
Party
Political Party
Movement
Chairman
Whose
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.
Elliott Abrams
Conflict
Nation
Nationalism
Jews
Definition
Solidarity
Arab
Muslims
Instead
Support
Between
Course
Does
Hamas
Precisely
Which
Turkey
Bin
Al
Based
Al-Qaeda
Position
Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead.
Elliott Abrams
Future
Conflict
Nothing
Resolve
Interstate
Needless
Gaza
Say
Religious
Solved
About
West
West Bank
Bank
Disputes
Violence
Need
The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.
Elliott Abrams
Politics
Diplomacy
Long
Anchors
Arab
Weakened
Arabia
Both
Forces
Been
Egypt
Now
Saudi
Consensus
Saudi Arabia
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
History
Later
Arab
Record
Someday
About
Began
Revolt
Ended
May
Against
Century
Awakening
At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.
Elliott Abrams
United Nations
Always
Israel
Mob
Just
Nations
Moment
United
Away
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.
Elliott Abrams
Power
Unfair
Security
Security Council
Some
Compromises
Council
Without
Block
Just
Moves
Them
Agreeing
Damaging
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
Elliott Abrams
Remember
Past
Those
East
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Direct
Seems
Policy
Condemned
Middle
Middle East
Cannot
Who
Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.
Elliott Abrams
Sense
Security
Israel
Dependent
Flexibility
America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.
Elliott Abrams
Difficult
Relations
States
Complex
Eastern
America
Often
Egypt
Middle
Middle Eastern
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.
Elliott Abrams
Terrorism
Will
Gaza
Clear
Until
Became
Israel
Leave
Lebanon
Source
West
West Bank
South
Left
Bank
Against
Region
Should
Palestinians
I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror.
Elliott Abrams
People
Compromised
Leaders
New
Call
Terror
Elect
Palestinian
Palestinian People
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.
Elliott Abrams
Great
People
Financial
Great Deal
Will
Diplomacy
Three
Situation
Energy
Aid
Changing
Attention
Toward
Policy
Deal
Disclosure
Affecting
South
Effective
Capable
Require
Should
Sudan
Elements
Lives
The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.
Elliott Abrams
Increased
Aid
States
Handle
Agencies
Should
Working
Help
Sudan
United
United States
Humanitarian
Strengthen
Flow
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