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

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Best Cabinet Democracy Ever Get Good Good Qualities May Palestinians Qualities Well Whatever

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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

Topics: Been Construction Decades Decision Demand Diplomacy End Had Israel Israeli Palestinians Settlements Table Together Total Until

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When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Able American American President Appears Ask Combination Compromises Deeply Israel Must Palestinians President Respond Some Sympathetic Which

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The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem - which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Actually Administration Alliance Ally Capital Closer Country East Israel Jerusalem Long Middle Middle East Obama Obama Administration Our Policy Sooner State Wall Western Which Will Worthy

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

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Chairman Movement Party Political Political Party Whose

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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.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Claimed Ends He Means Much Never Spent Time Washington Who Wills

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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

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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

Topics: About Bank Conflict Disputes Future Gaza Need Needless Nothing Religious Resolve Say Solved Violence West West Bank Ahead

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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

Topics: Anchors Arab Arabia Been Both Consensus Diplomacy Egypt Forces Long Now Politics Saudi Saudi Arabia Weakened

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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

Topics: About Against Arab Awakening Began Century Ended History Later May Record Revolt Someday

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: January 24th, 1948

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