IPS Writers in the Blogosphere

Currently viewing the tag: "Dennis Ross"

Obama’s Near East Trip: Time to be Bold

From On March 6, 2013 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

by Robert E. Hunter

The stakes in President Barak Obama’s impending visit to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan have risen steadily in recent days. It is taking take place, after all, almost immediately following Secretary of State John Kerry’s trip around the region — but not to the same stops [...]

Continue Reading →

An attack on Iran in 2013?

From On December 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

According to former top advisers to George W. Bush and Barak Obama, the United States will preventively strike Iran in 2013 if no diplomatic settlement is reached over its nuclear program. From the Times of Israel:

During an on-stage discussion with Dennis Ross and Elliott Abrams halfway through the [...]

Continue Reading →

Clinton says US open to direct talks with Iran (again)

From On December 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

Further to Jim’s post on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s explicit statement on Friday that Washington wants bilateral talks with Iran, are similar comments she made on Nov. 30 at the Foreign Policy Group’s “Transformational Trends 2013″ Forum:

QUESTION: Robin Wright.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Hi, Robin.

QUESTION: I want to ask you [...]

Continue Reading →

Anti-Iran Hawks Maintain P.R. Offensive

From On October 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via IPS News

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.N. General Assembly last month that Iran’s nuclear programme was unlikely to breach his “red line” for presumed military action until next spring or summer, many observers here looked forward to some relief from the nearly incessant drumbeat for war by U.S. [...]

Continue Reading →

Obama needs a Game-Changer on Iran

From On September 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

This was one of the most memorable lines from Barack Obama’s 2008 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention: “the greatest risk we can take is to try the same, old politics with the same, old players and expect a different result.”

Those of us who took him at [...]

Continue Reading →

David Ignatius: Seeking to Cool War Fever over Iran

From On August 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

In March, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius suggested that sanctions and “covert actions” should be used to “sink” the Iranian government rather than bombs. Six months later, Ignatius — like Dennis Ross and Jeffrey Goldberg – is offering suggestions for slowing Israel’s alleged march to war with [...]

Continue Reading →

Dennis Ross and "The Departed"

From On November 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Today the Washington Post published a slideshow depicting 21 top officials that have left the Obama administration, beginning with Dennis Ross and ending with General Stanley McChrystal. The biographical information presented about them is wanting, to say the least, but thankfully Jim Lobe’s article in IPS fills in all [...]

Continue Reading →

Pro-Peace Jewish Lobby Group Urges Obama to Seize Moment

From On March 1, 2011 · 2 Comments

From the IPS wire (links added):

WASHINGTON, Mar1, 2011 (IPS) – J Street, the Washington-based “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace” advocacy group, drew a large crowd to its annual conference this year despite criticism over its controversial calls for the Barack Obama administration not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction in [...]

Continue Reading →

The Daily Talking Points

From On February 28, 2011 · 1 Comment

News and views on U.S.-Iran relations for February 26-28:

The Washington Post: Jennifer Rubin blogs that White House Middle East Adviser (and Middle East Quarterly board member) Dennis Ross’s appearance at the J Street conference today “was an odd assignment, given that J Street, in concert with the pro-Iranian-regime NIAC had [...]

Continue Reading →

Commentary: A Little Transparency Please

From On February 25, 2011 · 3 Comments

“COMMENTARY is America’s premier monthly magazine of opinion and a pivotal voice in American intellectual life.”

-about Commentary

Though I don’t subscribe to Commentary, I read its “Contentions” blog daily. “Opinion”? Definitely. “American intellectual life”? Keep dreaming.

I certainly don’t respect any intellectuals who can’t realize that journalism requires some basic disclosures. This is [...]

Continue Reading →