Elliott Abrams Quotes
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Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.
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Sari Nusseibeh is a man without a country.
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At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.
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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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When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.
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The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.
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What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
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The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not.
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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 general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
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After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
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I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.
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The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.
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Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.
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When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.
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People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.
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The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
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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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America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.
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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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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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The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.
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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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Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them.
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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.