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Elliott Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor under Pres. George W. Bush.
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Who would manage Gaza, under the Arab plan, during the proposed $50 billion reconstruction project?
Once the model international organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) did precisely nothing for Israeli hostages. The United States should review why it is contributing over $600 million.
The ICJ's "advisory opinion" on Israeli "settlements" in Jerusalem and the West Bank is an injustice that gives evidence of considerable bias against the Jewish State.
U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East seems unaware of how U.S. power should be deployed to decrease the chances of war and to support U.S. allies.
Secretary of State Blinken's call for “a concrete, time-bound and irreversible path” to a Palestinian state presents serious dangers to Israel and to Palestinians as well.
The "DEI" bureaucracies in U.S. colleges are failing to protect Jewish students from a wave of antisemitism. The right reaction is to recognize how pernicious they are, not to plead that Jewish students too are "oppressed."
The Biden administration decision to bar U.S. support for Israeli research institutions in the West Bank achieves nothing for Palestinians or for U.S. policy goals.
The decision by judicial reform opponents to invite, indeed to plead for, U.S. intervention in this complex and fateful internal contest damages Israeli sovereignty and self-government.
Doomsday predictions about the consequences of Israel's election are overwrought. Some of the proposed legal reforms would bring Israel's system closer to the U.S. model.
Pres.t Biden showed strong support for Israel during his recent visit but never explained how the "two-state solution" would be possible without damaging Jordanian and Israeli security.
"Who watches the watchers?"
A congressional request for delay tests the Biden administration
UNIFIL is not supposed to be merely a means of communication, or the Security Council would have bought cell phones for them instead of paying for weapons for the military force.
Presumably both the Lebanese and Israeli governments prefer to have UNIFIL there as a sort of buffer, but at least in the Israeli case they would clearly like an active buffer that actually tries to do what it was tasked to do,
The British are now saying they will next year automatically vote against ANY and EVERY resolution brought under this agenda item, regardless of its content.
The automatic majority against Israel is indeed fraying at the edges. As U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said, “the common practice of turning a blind eye to the UN’s anti-Israel bias is changing. "
Misery in Gaza is not in Israel’s interest. The problem is that Hamas has shown no interest in transformation from Islamist terrorist group to a responsible government of Gaza and that is why it should turn over governance to the PA.
Misery in Gaza is not in Israel’s interest. The problem is that Hamas has thus far shown no interest in such a transformation from Islamist terrorist group into responsible government of Gaza.
Citizens of Gaza have plenty to protest about--just not Israel. Their complaints start with misrule by Hamas
The UN Human Rights Council passed five more anti-Israel resolutions last week. This was not a great surprise.
In my view, the statement is fairly radical in its departure from what has been U.S. policy for decades. How?
This visit is praiseworthy because it treats Israel as a normal nation. In that sense it is very much in line with President Trump's move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
Votes against Israel at the United Nations over the decades seem to indicate it is a pariah nation, but the country’s expanding bilateral ties tell a different story.
The Iranian people rose up against their oppressive government in June 2009. Now we are again seeing that this regime rules by brute force, is widely despised.
The list of countries supporting the resolution is remarkable--supposed American friends. Their vote was a gratuitous insult because this was a resolution in essence denouncing the United States, rather than the usual U.N. resolution against Israel.
If Abbas is the only, indeed best possible, Palestinian partner for peace and these are his views, what chance is there for a successful negotiation? None, I would think
Only one Western head of government was among the ten African presidents present, when Kenya inaugurated its new president. That leader was none other than Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu
Given the growth of anti-Semitism in Europe and globally in recent years, having the Saudis publicly demonstrate respect for Judaism is a helpful and useful step--for Israel and for Jews
Cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia will likely continue, and deepen, and signs of it will emerge from time to time but don't expect a great leap forward such as the groundbreaking Sadat visit to Jerusalem.
Whatever the debate over the JCPOA, there may well be a broader consensus in the administration that Iran’s growing military role in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere in the region must be countered.
Why can’t the UN get more done to promote freedom? Because so many member states are themselves dictatorships that engage in horrible human rights violations—and they stick together
Israel has given the United States fair warning that there are limits to what Israel will tolerate in Iranian conduct and the Iranian presence in Syria. Israel's decision to fire from Lebanese air space was also a message—to Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.
Israel’s security focus is changing: to the growing Iranian military presence in Syria, the growing military strength of Hezbollah, and the possibility of a devastating Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
A new study of Palestinian textbooks finds that Palestinian children are being taught to glorify and value terrorism and violence.That is not the way to prepare children for peace.
July 3, 2026 
