Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.
Dennis Ross
And that's going to create a stalemate between the two sides unless we build a bridge to the future in advance of that stalemate.
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In these countries there still is a climate that certainly makes it possible and doesn't make it illegitimate to embrace this ideology.
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That's the new struggle of our time, and we have to frame it that way to understand what we're contending with and why it's so important for us not to fail.
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The problem is going to be within a month or two after disengagement there will be two completely different expectations as to what comes next.
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They acquire a kind of a momentum and we have to blunt that. I would like to see the president talk much more about those kinds of stakes because this is a way to explain what we're contending with, what we're fighting.
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We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.
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It's a reminder that this is a very difficult time
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It's January 8th
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The president.. Wants me to focus on the security questions and I will be doing that
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Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. Is at the table.
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You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.
It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.
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Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.
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Overwhelmingly, Israel's political and military establishment want the rest of the world to act diplomatically or otherwise to stop Iran. But if that doesn't happen, then the impulse toward the use of force will become quite strong.
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