I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas. — 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
There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story. — 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
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle… — 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 Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer… — 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 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
I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that… — 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
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
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
The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was because of its gas, because… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate… — 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
The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity.… — 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
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
The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood… — 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
Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much… — 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
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
The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and… — 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
