Elliott Abrams: “Either Trump is going to win or Maduro is going to win.”

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.

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…

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