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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.
- Ian Lustick
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#River
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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.
- Ian Lustick
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#Done
#Old
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#Problems
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.
- Ian Lustick
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#Tell
#Terrorism
#Think
From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
- Ian Lustick
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#Point Of View
#Social
#View
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.
- Ian Lustick
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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.
- Ian Lustick
#Authority
#Pressure
#Responsibility
Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
- Ian Lustick
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#Groups
#How
#Players
#Political
My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.
- Ian Lustick
#Academic
#Relations
#Specialization
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.
- Ian Lustick
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#Momentum
#Project
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#War
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.
- Ian Lustick
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#Bank
#Leadership
#Living
#Off
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.
- Ian Lustick
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#Easy
#Equality
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#World
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.
- Ian Lustick
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#Build
#Live
#Stay
#Try
Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
- Ian Lustick
#Egypt
#Scared
#Should
#Them
#Wary
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.
- Ian Lustick
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#More
#Peace
#People
#Security
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?
- Ian Lustick
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#Politician
#Should
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