Tag: Dennis Ross

“Joe Biden’s standing with the Israeli public is the US’s most powerful asset today in shaping events in Gaza."

Kissinger urged President-elect Joe Biden to rethink his plan to conduct talks with Iran on renewing the nuclear deal and warned that it could usher in a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

Let Smotrich and Peretz ask Itamar Ben-Gvir and Michael Ben-Ari how it feels to drop from a faction of four MKs in 2009, to 70,000 votes in the last elections, because they were so smart and pure of heart and free-speechy.

The poor outlook for a peace process with the current Palestinian-Arab leadership.

Alon Friedman of the Hillel organization waxed philosophical: 'A Jew is not someone whose grandfather was a Jew but someone whose grandson would be a Jew.'

Netanyahu was offering the "transfer of more territory from Israel's Zone C to Zone A, controlled by the Palestinians" in return for the Labor party joining his coalition government.

Former Mossad director Tamir Pardo has agreed to join the board of an international anti-Iran organization.

Obama seems to have fallen into the old trap of appointing people who tell him what he wants to hear.

“Regretfully our president is the Neville Chamberlain of our day – he doesn’t know how to handle evil,” commented Pittenger, “Netanyahu is Winston Churchill – and the American public deserves to hear his point of view as the prime minister of the country that sits in the heart of it all.”

Former US special envoys Martin Indyk and Dennis Ross propose a "nuclear guarantee" for Israel by the US.

Most significantly, both sides made progress until they talked about the status of Jerusalem.

Israel and the Gulf States may not agree on everything but everyone worries about how to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon.

The most realistic and helpful comments on Iran came today from Gabi Ashkenazi. He says that the military option is and should be the last option and yet it must remain on the table because if other options are to succeed, the only way it can succeed is if the threat of military action remains.

Dagan and Ashkenazi made their comments on a panel at the 2012 Presidential Conference that included former Presidential adviser Dennis Ross. Dagan said in Egypt it matters not who votes but who counts the vote.

In the October 7, 2004 issue of The New York Review of Books, Rob Malley, who was part of the U.S. team at Camp David, reviewed Dennis Ross's book on the peace process (The Missing Peace) and came to a conclusion very different from Ross.