Martin Indyk

Martin S. Indyk is a veteran lobbyist for Israel, the founding director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the current vice president and director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. He is also a former director of Brookings' Saban Center for Middle East Policy.

Despite his well known affiliation with the Israel Lobby and his Australian nationality, he was appointed by Bill Clinton as the US Ambassador to Israel in 1995. The issuance of his US nationality was expedited for the appointment. Once appointed to public office he ceased being a 'lobbyist', but joined the growing ranks of the Israel-First fifth column in the U.S.

He frequently appears on CNN as a "Middle-East expert".

Affiliations

• AIPAC -- former research director
• Saban Center for Middle East Policy
• Washington Institute for Near East Policy founding Executive Director

Books

• Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (2009), New York, Simon & Schuster

Related Articles

• Chemi Shalev, Could this war produce a Sunni-Israeli alliance?, Haaretz, August 8, 2006.
• PIWP Database compendium of articles about Martin Indyk can be found [1]

Martin S. Indyk, Brookings Institution (accessed 8 September 2010).

Grace Halsell, Clinton's Indyk Appointment One of Many From Pro-Israel Think Tank, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (accessed 8 September 2010).

Martin S. Indyk, Simon & Schuster (accessed 8 September 2010).

Grace Halsell, Clinton's Indyk Appointment One of Many From Pro-Israel Think Tank, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (accessed 8 September 2010).