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Israel Quotes by Elliott Abrams
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab -…
- I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved.
- The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.
- The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.
- Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way…
- What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
- Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in Syria.…
- At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment 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…
- 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…
- The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S.…
- The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.
- One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be.
- Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists…
- 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…
- The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.
- Pessimism is rife in Israel.
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- Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and… — Pope Benedict XVI
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- But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is… — Theodore Bikel
- A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country… — Andrea Bocelli
- Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. — Conrad Black