President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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
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
The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring… — 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
Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its… — 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