I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest… — 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… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective: Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for… — 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
In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk… — 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
