The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
While Israelis do not care too much about Europeans moral judgments, the E.U. is an important market for them, and European sanctions… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. — 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:… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't. — 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
Can Israelis be wistful? It is not the characteristic we usually associate with them; more typically they are said to be tough,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them.… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again,… — 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
