Israel Quotes by Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

— Elliott Abrams

Pessimism is rife in Israel.

— Elliott Abrams

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.

— Elliott Abrams

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

— Elliott Abrams

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.

— Elliott Abrams

The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.

— Elliott Abrams

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

— Elliott Abrams

It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians.

— Elliott Abrams

I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror.

— Elliott Abrams

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

— Elliott Abrams

The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.

— Elliott Abrams

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

— Elliott Abrams

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

— Elliott Abrams

The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.

— Elliott Abrams

Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end…

— Elliott Abrams

Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each…

— Elliott Abrams

The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.

— Elliott Abrams

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

— Elliott Abrams

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a…

— Elliott Abrams

While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions…

— Elliott Abrams

Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.

— Elliott Abrams

The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint…

— Elliott Abrams

For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts…

— Elliott Abrams

It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American…

— Elliott Abrams

The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al…

— Elliott Abrams

The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on…

— Elliott Abrams

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,'…

— Elliott Abrams

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no…

— Elliott Abrams

Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation's university system, their marriages are not recognized…

— Elliott Abrams

Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It…

— Elliott Abrams

Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies…

— Elliott Abrams

The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that…

— Elliott Abrams

It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that…

— Elliott Abrams

For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.

— Elliott Abrams

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

— Elliott Abrams

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

— Elliott Abrams

The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time.

— Elliott Abrams

U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.

— Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

— Elliott Abrams

I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.

— Elliott Abrams