Elliott Abrams Quotes

The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.

I don't know where Bush is going - yet. But, Sharon obviously - I wrote somewhere in the last several months, that Sharon has adopted, essentially, the position of the Labor Party: that the Palestinians are here to stay.

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

The dissolution of the Oslo Accords would serve as the official act validating what we already know - that this failed framework is totally irrelevant in 2013.

How do you negotiate a two state solution with the Palestinians when they do not believe that one of the states has the right to exist?

No one was talking about a two-state solution until the '90s, then it became an acceptable solution.

Jared Kushner is the last person that should be trying to bring peace to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

If America would really stand behind the two-state solution, they could make real pressure on Israel.

The land is ours. I will do everything in my power, forever, to fight against a Palestinian state being founded in the Land of Israel.

What I hear from many people on all sides of the political spectrum is that Palestine has been so carved up now that it's very hard to imagine how a two-state solution is possible. So that's what I hear many experts say, but I myself am not committing one way or the other at this point. I do feel like it's really important to allow the Israelis and Palestinians to begin rehumanizing each other and to move forward from there.

Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist.

There won't be a Palestinian state within Israel.

How have the past four years served Israel or the Palestinians? We want a solution for the sake of humanity.

Every country in the world should follow the example of President Trump and move the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. But simultaneously, there should be an embassy of all countries in the world in East Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Palestine.

A two-state solution cannot be promised without having negotiations first.

This was not a decision made with the Israelis. This was a decision by the president for the American people. And so, it was a decision that we all said Jerusalem should be the capital and the embassy should be there. This decision should not weigh in on the peace process.

I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories.

The problem is that Abu Mazen signed an agreement with the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.

The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.

Palestine-Israel is such a ludicrous issue.

I don't think that everything is a zero-sum game in which, when the president of the United States says something, that means that he is pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli, or vice versa.

Israel never meant to take over the West Bank and Gaza - it got stuck with them after the 1967 war.

I didn't go into politics out of concern for the Palestinians but out of concern for Israel.

The truth is that the dream of 'two states for two peoples,' born in the '90s, died in the noughties. The two-state solution, the popular and principled option for so long now, is neither practical nor possible.

I arranged the first meeting between Ariel Sharon and the settlers.