During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner. — 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
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
Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there,… — 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
Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for… — 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
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
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
