Elliott Abrams: “If we don't ask them to do what is right for their own people, we are complicit in what is happening inside the P.A.”

We think that this opinion is spreading within the military that the current situation is untenable.

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.

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

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