Quotes from Elliott Abrams

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 construction froze not the settlements but the diplomacy.

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause.

The Assad regime has lost the consent of the governed, and it is difficult to see how a replacement Alawite regime would be able to regain this consent.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

The Knesset is in Israel, and the Western Wall is in Israel, and the sooner the Obama administration realizes this, the closer it will be to a Middle East policy worthy of our country and its long alliance with our ally in Jerusalem - which is, actually, the capital of the state of Israel.

The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.

Refusing to lift sanctions and adopting tougher rhetoric toward Iran would not be partisan issues. Plenty of Democrats think that those actions are both good politics and good policy.

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.

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.

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there.

China has concluded that trade trumps all.

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

For 22 years, Bandar bin Sultan was Saudi Arabia's influential, irrepressible ambassador in Washington.

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

The Iron Dome is great for the U.S.

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.

Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.