Elliott Abrams: “That is why I think this committee and others need to reassess those expenditures.”

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

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 Arab Spring came from the bottom up.

He accused Israel of trying to change the status quo on the Temple Mount and threatened a religious conflict that would spread across Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authorities.