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 Image
Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics… — 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
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
When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of… — 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
The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is… — 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
