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
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
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
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
After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological… — 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