I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admired, George C. Marshall, and won a… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank;… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish -… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and has allowed Israeli Jews to… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
Israel and the Palestinians had been at the table together for decades until the Obama/Mitchell/Rahm Emanuel decision to demand a total end to Israeli… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
