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'''Dennis Ross''' (born 16 November 1948) is a veteran Israel lobbyist who has served in the Obama Administration as a Special assistant to the president and senior director of the Central Region at the National Security Council since June 2009. He formerly served as a Sspecial Middle East Coordinator in the Clinton Administration, responsible for mediating the peace negotiations between the Israelis as Palestinians. According to Aaron David Miller, one of his subordinates, he and his team frequently served as 'Israel's lawyers.'<ref>Aaron David Miller, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200883.html Israel's Lawyer], ''Washington Post'', 23 May 2005</ref> While serving at the Pentagon in the Carter administration, he also co-authored a study with [[Paul Wolfowitz]] which debuted the idea of Iraq as a military threat to the United States.<ref>James Mann, ''The Rise of the Vulcans'' (Penguin 2004), pp.77-82</ref>
 
'''Dennis Ross''' (born 16 November 1948) is a veteran Israel lobbyist who has served in the Obama Administration as a Special assistant to the president and senior director of the Central Region at the National Security Council since June 2009. He formerly served as a Sspecial Middle East Coordinator in the Clinton Administration, responsible for mediating the peace negotiations between the Israelis as Palestinians. According to Aaron David Miller, one of his subordinates, he and his team frequently served as 'Israel's lawyers.'<ref>Aaron David Miller, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200883.html Israel's Lawyer], ''Washington Post'', 23 May 2005</ref> While serving at the Pentagon in the Carter administration, he also co-authored a study with [[Paul Wolfowitz]] which debuted the idea of Iraq as a military threat to the United States.<ref>James Mann, ''The Rise of the Vulcans'' (Penguin 2004), pp.77-82</ref>
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==Scuttling the Peace Process==
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According to multiple sources Ross acted as a staunch advocate for Israel during the Oslo peace process, at times sabotaging the negotiations. Yet, in an interview with the New York Times Magazine at the end of his tenure with the Clinton Administration, he laid all the blame on Yasir Arafat. The interview also occassioned this frank admission:
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:'My Jewishness has added to my sense of mission,' he says. And he is an ardent supporter of Israel, where he has vacationed with his family. 'I don't believe you'll ever produce peace in the Middle East,'' he says, ''if Israel isn't strong and if there isn't a strong relationship between the United States and Israel.'<ref>Clyde Haberman, [http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/25/magazine/dennis-ross-s-exit-interview.html?pagewanted=print Dennis Ross's Exit Interview], ''New York Times Magazine'', 25 March 2001</ref>
  
 
==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==

Revision as of 22:54, 24 November 2010

Dennis Ross (born 16 November 1948) is a veteran Israel lobbyist who has served in the Obama Administration as a Special assistant to the president and senior director of the Central Region at the National Security Council since June 2009. He formerly served as a Sspecial Middle East Coordinator in the Clinton Administration, responsible for mediating the peace negotiations between the Israelis as Palestinians. According to Aaron David Miller, one of his subordinates, he and his team frequently served as 'Israel's lawyers.'[1] While serving at the Pentagon in the Carter administration, he also co-authored a study with Paul Wolfowitz which debuted the idea of Iraq as a military threat to the United States.[2]

Scuttling the Peace Process

According to multiple sources Ross acted as a staunch advocate for Israel during the Oslo peace process, at times sabotaging the negotiations. Yet, in an interview with the New York Times Magazine at the end of his tenure with the Clinton Administration, he laid all the blame on Yasir Arafat. The interview also occassioned this frank admission:

'My Jewishness has added to my sense of mission,' he says. And he is an ardent supporter of Israel, where he has vacationed with his family. 'I don't believe you'll ever produce peace in the Middle East, he says, if Israel isn't strong and if there isn't a strong relationship between the United States and Israel.'[3]

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Notes

  1. Aaron David Miller, Israel's Lawyer, Washington Post, 23 May 2005
  2. James Mann, The Rise of the Vulcans (Penguin 2004), pp.77-82
  3. Clyde Haberman, Dennis Ross's Exit Interview, New York Times Magazine, 25 March 2001