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 failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders - leaders not compromised by terror. — 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
After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. — 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
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
The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank;… — 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
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