Israel Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

15 Israel quotes by Charles Krauthammer

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Krauthammer’s 15 entries deliver his trademark incisiveness on Israel’s security and diplomatic posture. The list reads like a series of briefing notes for anyone tracking the region’s politics.

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I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will…

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The Iraquis can see it. The Kurds can feel it. The jihadists are counting on it.

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“Krauthammer’s Law: Everyone is Jewish until proven otherwise. I’ve had a fairly good run with this one.”

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Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into…

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“It's the jihadists who decided to make the world a battlefield and to wage war in perpetuity. Until they abandon the field,…

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Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...]…

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Obama has committed the U.S. to war on the Islamic State. To then allow within a month an allied enclave to be…

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A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt…

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The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which…

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This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday,…

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Hawks favor war on the grounds that Saddam Hussein is reckless, tyrannical and instinctively aggressive, and that if he comes into possession…

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Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the…

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Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local…

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The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been…

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“The process is taking place before our eyes and is already far advanced.” Under present trends, “the number of Jews in Europe…

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“America is the most welcoming, religiously tolerant, philo-semitic country in the world. No nation since Cyrus the Great’s Persia has done more for the…

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The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

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“International stability is never a given. It is never the norm. When achieved, it is the product of self-conscious action by the great powers,…

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Look, I don't mind if the President sends a budget which he knows is not going to achieve anything. But when he prefaces his…

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“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.”

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Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon--my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut…

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“The Russian Revolution and its imitators (Chinese, Cuban, Vietnamese, Cambodian) tried to atomize society so thoroughly--to war against the mediating structures that stand between…

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Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

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Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

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“The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity,' warns Czech president Vaclav Klaus, 'is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the…

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