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
For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts… — 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
A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much… — 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
