Elliott Abrams: “no, you should not designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. That would be, I think, a very foolish…”

The Arab Spring came from the bottom up.

I think by cutting off the direct payments now, you would be sending a very clear message to the Palestinian leadership that this is intolerable.

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

Cutting all the funds but allowing a 100 percent national security waiver, I think, achieves almost nothing.