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Elliott Abrams

Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and is the chairman of the Tikvah Fund.

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  1. Observation ·

    Podcast: Elliott Abrams on Whether American Jewry Can Restore Its Sense of Peoplehood

    By Elliott Abrams, Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Podcast: Elliott Abrams on Whether American Jewry Can Restore Its Sense of Peoplehood
  2. Observation ·

    The Genial, Jewish Joseph Lieberman

    By Elliott Abrams

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Genial, Jewish Joseph Lieberman
  3. Observation ·

    The Best Books of 2023, Part I

    By Elliott Abrams, Cynthia Ozick, Neil Rogachevsky, Ruth R. Wisse

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Best Books of 2023, Part I
  4. Observation ·

    What Kissinger Really Thought

    By Elliott Abrams, Norman Podhoretz, Jonathan Silver

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    What Kissinger Really Thought
  5. Observation ·

    Podcast: Elliott Abrams on American Jews and the New Israeli Government

    By Tikvah Podcast at Mosaic, Elliott Abrams

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Podcast: Elliott Abrams on American Jews and the New Israeli Government
  6. Observation ·

    The Best Books of 2022, Chosen by Mosaic Authors

    By Elliott Abrams, Tamara Berens, Andrew Koss, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Sarah Rindner, Jonathan Silver

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Best Books of 2022, Chosen by Mosaic Authors
  7. Observation ·

    The Best Books of 2021, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)

    By Elliott Abrams, Richard Goldberg, Neil Rogachevsky, Jonathan Silver, Ruth R. Wisse

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Best Books of 2021, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)
  8. Response ·

    What Can Be Done Politically to Weaken Hamas

    By Elliott Abrams

    America’s interests in Gaza are threefold: to alleviate the humanitarian suffering of the Palestinians living there, to strengthen Israel’s security, and to see an end to the control of the Gaza Strip...

    What Can Be Done Politically to Weaken Hamas
  9. Observation ·

    The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)

    By Elliott Abrams, Diana Muir Appelbaum, Matti Friedman, Haviv Rettig Gur, Daniel Johnson, Moshe Koppel, Daniel Polisar

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Best Books of 2019, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)
  10. Response ·

    Middle East Strategy? What Middle East Strategy?

    By Elliott Abrams

    In his new essay in Mosaic , Michael Doran, whose writings about the Middle East are invaluable, has tried to explain . . . everything. That is: to document the damage done by President Barack Obama...

    Middle East Strategy? What Middle East Strategy?
  11. Observation ·

    The Best Books of 2018, Chosen by Mosaic Authors

    By Elliott Abrams, Haviv Rettig Gur, Moshe Koppel, Daniel Polisar, Sarah Rindner, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Ruth R. Wisse, David Wolpe

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    The Best Books of 2018, Chosen by Mosaic Authors
  12. Response ·

    Israel Mustn’t Let Its Economic Relationship with China Threaten Its Political Relationship with America

    By Elliott Abrams

    As Arthur Herman rightly and very usefully points out in his essay in Mosaic , Israel’s growing relationship with China presents wonderful economic opportunities and serious political threats. I’m...

    Israel Mustn’t Let Its Economic Relationship with China Threaten Its Political Relationship with America
  13. Response ·

    Who Speaks for American Jews Now?

    By Elliott Abrams

    Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy have written a wise and fascinating analysis of Israel-Diaspora relations, and have then proposed a path toward ameliorating them. As they explain, today’s situation is...

    Who Speaks for American Jews Now?
  14. Observation ·

    Some Key Founders of the International Human Rights Movement Were Also Zionists

    By Elliott Abrams

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Some Key Founders of the International Human Rights Movement Were Also Zionists
  15. Response ·

    How to Ensure the Future of the U.S.–Israel Relationship

    By Elliott Abrams

    The title of Charles Freilich’s essay in Mosaic , “Has Israel Grown Too Dependent on the United States?,” raises a very important question to which Freilich offers a number of answers and recommend...

    How to Ensure the Future of the U.S.–Israel Relationship
  16. Observation ·

    Best Books of the Year, as Selected by Mosaic Authors

    By Elliott Abrams, Peter Berkowitz, Daniel Polisar, Neil Rogachevsky, Michael Weingrad, Ruth R. Wisse, David Wolpe

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Best Books of the Year, as Selected by Mosaic Authors
  17. Observation ·

    Between American Jews and Israel: Are Pressure Tactics Fair Game? An Exchange

    By Daniel Gordis, Elliott Abrams

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Between American Jews and Israel: Are Pressure Tactics Fair Game? An Exchange
  18. Observation ·

    Thinking about Suspending Support for Israel Over the Western Wall and Conversion Disputes? Think Again.

    By Elliott Abrams

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

    Thinking about Suspending Support for Israel Over the Western Wall and Conversion Disputes? Think Again.
  19. Response ·

    The Need to Change Palestinian Political Culture

    By Elliott Abrams

    Remember Tinker Bell, the fairy in Peter Pan ? J.M. Barrie wrote this scene: Every moment her light was growing fainter; and [Peter] knew that if it went out she would be no more. . . . Her voice was...

    The Need to Change Palestinian Political Culture
  20. Response ·

    American Jewry Will No Longer Be the Center of the Jewish World

    By Elliott Abrams

    In late fall 1940, as World War II raged in Europe and despite the parlous situation of the Jews in British-Mandate Palestine, their leader David Ben-Gurion spent three and a half months in the United...

    American Jewry Will No Longer Be the Center of the Jewish World
  21. Monthly Essay ·

    If American Jews and Israel Are Drifting Apart, What’s the Reason?

    By Elliott Abrams

    The conventional wisdom says the problem is Israel. It’s wrong.

    If American Jews and Israel Are Drifting Apart, What’s the Reason?
  22. Response ·

    The Peace Process Is Defunct—but Israel Mustn’t Appear to Be Giving Up on It

    By Elliott Abrams

    Like Tinkerbell in Peter Pan , the “peace process” may die unless we all clap loudly and say we believe in it. In “The Two-State Solution Is in Stalemate,” Evelyn Gordon tells us to keep our hands do...

    The Peace Process Is Defunct—but Israel Mustn’t Appear to Be Giving Up on It
  23. Response ·

    What the President Thinks He’s Doing

    By Elliott Abrams

    President Obama’s foreign policy cannot be understood or defended as an effort to advance American national interests as they are normally understood. By any usual definition—strengthening of allies,...

    What the President Thinks He’s Doing
  24. Response ·

    Keeping the Status Quo, and Improving It

    By Elliott Abrams

    I’m grateful for the insightful responses to “ What Now for Israel ?” by Robert Satloff, Amos Yadlin, Haviv Rettig Gur, and Michael Doran. I have a few general points to make, and I trust they will e...

    Keeping the Status Quo, and Improving It
  25. Monthly Essay ·

    What Now for Israel?

    By Elliott Abrams

    Common enemies and shared interests have aligned the Saudis, the Egyptians, and other Arabs with the Jewish state. That's the good news.

    What Now for Israel?
  26. Response ·

    Two Words

    By Elliott Abrams

    Robert Nicholson’s “ Evangelicals and Israel ” should worry any Jewish supporter of Israel, for three major reasons. The first is that ingratitude is a great sin—though one with deep roots in Jewis...

    Two Words