Barbara A. Leaf

You cannot do it all by military means alone. There will have to be a political alternative.

I agree with the objective that Hamas never again control the Gaza Strip or threaten Israel.

It will not be done by military means alone.

President Biden has articulated a forward-looking approach to the region based on five elements: partnership, deterrence, diplomacy, regional integration, and values.

The brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi was absolutely unacceptable.

We are foursquare opposed to normalization. We do not think Assad merited an invitation to the Arab League.

We are going to go for broke. We are going to try to get a larger extension of that and see if we can get other border points open as well.

We have made real progress. We have built on the historic Abraham Accords by launching the Negev Forum and I2U2.

Let me be frank with you. After more than a decade of conflict, prospects remain limited for advancing a political solution worthy of Syrians who bravely demanded change more than 10 years ago.

The ultimate responsibility for this continued tragedy rests with Bashar Al-Assad, backed by Russia and Iran, who has brought his country to the brink of ruin and remains intransigent.

I want to be clear on what we have not done in Syria and what we will not do, which is support efforts to normalize or rehabilitate Bashar Al-Assad in any way, lift sanctions on the regime, or change our position opposing reconstruction in…