Barbara A. Leaf: “I agree with the objective that Hamas never again control the Gaza Strip or threaten Israel.”

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

It will not be done by military means alone.

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.

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…