Middle east Quotes by Elliott Abrams

10 Middle east quotes by Elliott Abrams

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Abrams’s commentary on the Middle East—strategy, diplomacy, and politics—is distilled into ten concise statements. The set is brief, but each line offers a clear, informed snapshot of his approach to regional affairs.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

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On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

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Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much…

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The fake republics are goners; the monarchies have a fighting chance. That's my conclusion after a short visit to the Middle East…

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There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

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The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al…

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Peace in the Middle East has been on the Obama administration's mind from the beginning. Two days after his inauguration, the president…

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In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle…

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The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer…

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Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies…

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From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist…

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The Pope is not a political figure.

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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…

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Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

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The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.

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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…

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Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released.

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Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both…

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At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights…

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