When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid. — 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
The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. — 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
The United States and its Gulf allies, some of who are actively funding rebel groups in Syria, should undertake a serious joint… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The United States treated Gaddafi as an enemy due to his support for terrorism against us, until a rapprochement of sorts began… — 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
The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic… — 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
The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was because of its gas, because… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash. — 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
