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My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Rationally
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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Require
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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Far Away
Networking
Pakistan
Point Of View
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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Israelis
Question
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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Egypt
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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Groups
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Unintended Consequences
Consequences
Global Environment
Largest
Magnified
Unintended
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Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
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Fundamentalist
Palestine
Secular
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There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.
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Association
Scholarship
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Studies
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There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.
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Lesson
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Region
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Whether we agree with them or not, politicians aren't for trusting. They are for getting done what can be done to make really horrible problems into plain old lousy problems.
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Lousy
Plain
Trusting
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I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
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Popcorn
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The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.
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Demise
Disappearance
Exhaustion
Momentum
Plausible
Zionist
Cultural
Demographic
Israelis
Probable
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Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?
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Clinton
Johnson
Sharon
Bill Clinton
Bush
George W
George W. Bush
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
Netanyahu
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Richard Nixon
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The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.
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Hog
Palestinian
Population
Regard
Accomplishing
Bank
Held
Israelis
Relatively
West Bank
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There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
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Drastic
Other Countries
Willing World People
World Crazy People
Big Thing
Produced
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The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.
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Committed
Middle East
Jews
Long Run
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Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.
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Israeli
Majority
Notion
Relentless
Seems
Sentiments
Territory
Jewish
Bank
Cling
Efforts
Expand
Governments
Reflect
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
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Collapse
Disappear
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Assume
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West Bank
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International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
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Biological Weapons
Broken
International Peace
Intervention
Measuring
Nuclear
Weapons
Biological
Chemical
Depend
How Many People
Opposed
Recognized
Taboos
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What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
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Jordan
Sea
Stability
Basis
Outcome
Region
River
Virtually
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As long as Hamas needs the support it could conceivably get from the international community through the Palestinian Authority, it has an interest in playing nice with Fatah. And Fatah has an interest in playing nice with Hamas because it needs some source of legitimacy on the West Bank.
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Authority
Hamas
International Community
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Palestinian
Bank
West Bank
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Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.
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Filled
Implications
Revolutionary
Balloon
Bursts
Crossed
Governments
Gradually
Limit
Passed
Probable
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Most Israelis have a sense, 'We just don't want to live in the Middle East anymore. We don't want it to be the Middle East. Were going to just build a wall or operate unilaterally' - not try to even use force as used to be the case to convince Arabs to accept Israel by convincing them that Israel is here to stay and then negotiating.
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Convince
East
Force
Middle East
Negotiating
Wall
Accept
Anymore
Arabs
Case
Israelis
Operate
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When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.
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Nationalism
Racism
Best Good Today
Arab
Fundamentally
Good Thing
Preferences
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