Elliott Abrams Quotes
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Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad.
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The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
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America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.
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After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
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Henry M. Jackson, congressman and senator from 1941 until his death in 1983, achieved far greater renown than most legislators, ran for president in 1972 and 1976, and was for much of the 1970s and 1980s one of the most powerful men in America.
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History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.
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The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.
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If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.
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The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.
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Egypt needs law and order in Sinai to save the tourist industry in Sharm el-Sheik and prevent the area from becoming a base for terrorists that will target Egypt itself, as well as Jordan and Israel.
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While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
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You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.
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In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood as American weakness in the struggle for dominance in the Middle East, making additional cooperation from Arab leaders on Israeli-Palestinian issues even less likely.
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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews.
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The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home.
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If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.
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I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.
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The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.
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At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.
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Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.
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Cheney's memoir is not about 9/11, or solely about Bush's administration, but about his entire life and political career.
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Tunisian liberals say that the U.S. Embassy in Tunis is unengaged with their efforts to make sure the Tunisian model remains one of expanding freedom.