Elliott Abrams

This notion that, well, we cannot do this because there will be disorder in the West Bank or the Palestinian Authority would collapse, I think it is a reasonable concern, but it is not going to happen.

The moral point is crystal clear, and now is the time to act.

The idea of looking the other way because Palestinians will suffer from the aid cut, think again.

this terrible death of Taylor Force is what really got people to stand up and say, wait a minute, now we understand it, and it is intolerable.

Egypt is not going to be stable if there is nothing in it but the army and the opposition to the army.

If it were to become a failed state, as you said, Mr. Chairman, the impact on the whole Arab world would be destabilizing.

no, you should not designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. That would be, I think, a very foolish move.

I think actually that the Egyptian handling of this is creating jihadis.

Why does the international community feel the need to handle Abu Mazen with kid gloves and doesn't this send the wrong signal and essentially legitimizes Abu Mazen, emboldens his action to continue the acts of terror and this incitement…

He keeps doing it because he never pays a price for doing it.

What steps can we take to get other nations at the U.N. to put pressure on Abu Mazen to desist with the incitement, with his harmful rhetoric and instead begin working for the betterment of the Palestinian people and toward true peace with…

Some, very lamely, blame settlement activity by Israel as the justification for increased violence instead of putting the blame where it should be--with the Palestinian Authority, with Abu Mazen, with their longstanding practice of…