Elliott Abrams

Israeli Border Police officers man a checkpoint for Palestinians leaving the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, October 15, 2015. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)
What neoconservatives get wrong about U.S. Jews’ relationship with Israel
As much as it chagrins the likes of Elliott Abrams, the increasing difficulty they are having with defending Israel’s policies is due to the policies they are working to defend. The longer the occupation continues, the less support it will find among Jews in the United States. By Mitchell Plitnick Over the past few years,…
By +972 Magazine May 28, 2016
Elliott Abrams (Photo by Miller Center / CC 2.0, cropped)
Everything Elliott Abrams knows about Israeli settlements is wrong
The Israeli government uses the pretext of the two-state solution’s inevitability to justify building settlements on Palestinian land, all without ever earnestly seeking a two-state solution. Imagine that the Palestinian Authority announced that based on an offer made by Israel in past peace negotiations — and irrespective of the result of those negotiations — it was…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man September 7, 2014
ADL Director Abraham Foxman (justinhoch/CC BY 2.0)
No, Abe Foxman, America is not out to get the Jews
The U.S. Jewish establishment is starting to say publicly that anti-Semitism is the reason Jonathan Pollard is still in prison. This is sickening slander that reflects a deep-seated psychological problem.   Abraham Foxman, long-time leader of the Anti-Defamation League, capo di tutti capi of the Israel lobby, scourge of all scourges of anti-Semitism (real or…
By Larry Derfner January 28, 2014
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Chuck Hagel (SecretaryofDefense/CC BY 2.0)
Elliott Abrams: ‘Hagel will be confirmed, but he will be a weaker secretary of defense’
In an interview to the Israeli daily ‘Yedioth Ahronoth,’ the former neoconservative diplomat criticizes Hagel for his ‘I am an American senator’ remark. Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea has today a short interview with Elliott Abrams on the issue of Chuck Hagel’s nomination to secretary of defense, which various Israeli advocacy groups have opposed. Abrams opens by…
By Noam Sheizaf February 22, 2013
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