I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times. — 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
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 Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately… — 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
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
In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own… — 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
Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies… — 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
