For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity… — 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
Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring… — 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
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
Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there,… — 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
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
Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold… — 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
I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground… — 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
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
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
