America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint… — 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
History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt. — 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
Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no… — 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 ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,'… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic… — 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
It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change. — 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
