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Elliott Abrams

Elliott Abrams is currently senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser in the administration of President George W. Bush. He is the author, most recently, of Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Cambridge University Press).

Spring 2019

Lessons of the Soviet Jewish Exodus

Elliott Abrams

Between the mid-1960s and 1991, more than two million Jews left the USSR. To the extent that the Soviet Jewish exodus is remembered, its lessons are misunderstood.

Summer 2015

Israel’s Northern Border and the Chaos in Syria: A Symposium

Elliott Abrams, Itamar Rabinovich, Amos Yadlin

In the four-plus years since the Arab Spring, regimes have fallen, alliances have shifted and re-shifted, and new (and terrifying) actors have appeared on the scene. The diplomatic and strategic assumptions of several decades seem to have been upended. Nowhere is this more dramatically apparent than across Israel’s northern border. What, if anything, should Israel do about the Syrian crisis?

Spring 2014

Politics and Prophecy

Elliott Abrams

Ari Shavit, the Israeli prophet-journalist, offers both rebuke of the past and warnings for the future, but unlike prophets of old, he has no solutions for the way forward.