Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and… — 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
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
The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 to Israeli… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
