For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood… — 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
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
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
For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt… — 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
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
The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Thousands of members of Congress have come and gone over the years, their individual achievements hidden in committee reports, private compromises, amendments… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you.… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that… — 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
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
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
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
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
Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
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
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
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
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
When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
Israel bombed the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. What the Syrians did in response, nothing. Israel has killed a number of terrorist leaders in… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share
