Dennis Ross
By Dennis Ross
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Opinion What Israel’s Past Leaders Can Teach Us About Its Current Problem
The Netanyahu era is coming to an end in Israel. Once again, Benjamin Netanyahu has been unable to put together a government. Perhaps he will survive for a time in a national unity government, but even that may prove temporary if he is indicted by the Attorney General in early December. But regardless of whether…
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Opinion We’re Staunch Zionists. And We Are Worried About Israel’s Democracy.
Both of us have spent decades in public service in several U.S. administrations working to enhance the ties between the United States and Israel. Separately, in our private careers we have sought to promote the well-being of the Jewish people. We believe a strong, democratic Israel in the troubled Middle East is in the national…
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Opinion Diplomatic Turn: How The Six-Day War Shaped My Diplomatic Career
As the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War approaches, it is natural to think about how the war affected me. I was finishing up my freshman year at the University of California, Los Angeles. Like many of my generation, I opposed the Vietnam War. But I was not a pacifist; I thought that we…
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Opinion I Won’t Give Iran a Hall Pass to Nuclear Warfare
During a presidential debate in 2012 referring to the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, President Obama declared to the American people that “the deal we’ll accept is the end of their nuclear program.” In the coming weeks, Congress will debate the Iran Nuclear Agreement recently announced by the president. After reading the deal, I participated…
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Opinion With Synagogues in Jeopardy, It’s Time To Talk About Tithing
After winning a record 74 consecutive games on the television game-show Jeopardy, Ken Jennings of Murray, Utah, tithed $2.5 million in prize money to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormons like Jennings, as well as Baptists and many people of other faiths, proudly tithe to their churches. But we Jews, we don’t…
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News A Fabulous Friendship
Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance By Warren Bass Oxford University, 336 pages, $30 * * *| President John F. Kennedy, in his inaugural address, declared that the United States would “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, [and] oppose any foe to…
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