Barbara A. Leaf

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

It will not be done by military means alone.

The Biden administration has declined to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state and has stated that a Palestinian state should be established through, quote, 'direct negotiations between the parties involved in the conflict.'

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

The brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi was absolutely unacceptable.

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

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

We believe that pursuing the following priorities: defeating ISIS and al Qa'ida; increasing access to humanitarian aid; keeping violence down by maintaining ceasefires; and promoting accountability for the Assad regime's atrocities are…

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.

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…