Jon Greenwald is a former senior U.S. diplomat and vice president of the International Crisis Group.
Jon Greenwald
By Jon Greenwald
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Community Can Europe Save the Iran Deal?
President Trump has put the Iran nuclear deal on life support by pulling out the U.S. and reapplying extensive sanctions. Should the deal be saved? Can it be — and if so, how? Almost all observers outside his political base — which seems to be the main target of the president’s action — agree the…
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Community How Should Israeli-Palestinian Civil Society Respond To Trump’s Jerusalem Move?
Shortly after he helped produce the Balfour Declaration that 100 years ago gave great momentum to the enterprise to establish the Jewish National Home in Palestine, and well before he became Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann cautioned that “the Zionist Congress …. Has to learn the truth that Palestine is not Rhodesia and that 600,000…
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Community Tough Love: How America Can Be The Ally Israel Needs — And The World Deserves
As I read the outrage of Israeli and American critics of last month’s U.N. Security Council resolution on Israeli settlement activity and John Kerry’s speech, I recall the day in 2003 when I sat in the office of France’s foreign minister as he explained its opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Dominique de Villepin…
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