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2 months ago | 
foreignaffairs.com | Edward Alden |Abigail McGowan |Dennis Ross |David Makovsky
Donald Trump begins his presidency with ambitions of being a peacemaker. He laid out this vision in his inaugural address, declaring that his administration “will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars we end, and perhaps most importantly, by the wars we never get into.” Later that day, he basked in the success of the hostage cease-fire deal in Gaza, including by bringing the families of Israeli hostages to the inaugural parade.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | David Makovsky
President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will not seek re-election and instead focus the remainder of his term solely on being president, has upended the American political discourse less than four months before the presidential election. It also transforms and, at least in the US, will do much to sideline, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington this week.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Dennis Ross |David Makovsky |Calev Ben-Dor |Elliott Abrams
Gidi Grinstein was intimately involved in the negotiations during the Oslo years and served as secretary of the Israeli delegation for the Camp David negotiations. Since then he has written extensively about the structure of the peace process, most recently in his book (In)Sight: Peacemaking in the Oslo Process Thirty Years and Counting. Watch here:listen here:Episode One of the series, with Elliot Abrams, can be watched here. Episode Two of the series, with Dennis Ross, can be watched here.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
almendron.com | David Makovsky |Dennis Ross
For Israelis, it’s still Oct. 7. It is not just the shock and the horror of that day. The hostages are a daily reminder of a continuing trauma. President Biden has focused on a deal that gets the hostages released and sets in motion a process that leads to the end of the war in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the war can only end with Hamas’s military destroyed, it no longer being in control of Gaza and with the hostages returned.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
washingtonpost.com | Dennis Ross |David Makovsky
Democracy Dies in DarknessDennis Ross, a special assistant to President Barack Obama, is the counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and teaches at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization.
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May 1, 2024 | 
almendron.com | David Makovsky |Dennis Ross
Until last month, the war between Iran and Israel was largely fought in the shadows. The Iranians decided to take it out of the shadows, openly attacking Israeli territory directly, from Iranian soil, for the first time in the Islamic Republic’s history. Some observers have argued that Iran’s April 13 drone and missile assault on Israel was a symbolic gesture. Yet given the quantity of drones and missiles fired at Israel and their payloads, Iran clearly meant to inflict serious damage.
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May 1, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Dennis Ross |David Makovsky |a Professor |Obama administrations
Until last month, the war between Iran and Israel was largely fought in the shadows. The Iranians decided to take it out of the shadows, openly attacking Israeli territory directly, from Iranian soil, for the first time in the Islamic Republic’s history. Some observers have argued that Iran’s April 13 drone and missile assault on Israel was a symbolic gesture. Yet given the quantity of drones and missiles fired at Israel and their payloads, Iran clearly meant to inflict serious damage.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
nationalinterest.org | David Makovsky
After the events of the last month and a half, what does Israel need now, and where does it go from here? That’s what I sought to learn on a trip to Israel last week, where I met with senior civilian and defense officials and leading outside experts. Israel’s most pressing need is time. Israeli leaders believe their campaign to destroy Hamas is going well, proceeding faster and incurring fewer IDF casualties than visiting American generals expected.
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Oct 28, 2023 | 
alquds.com | Robert Satloff |Dennis Ross |David Makovsky
By Robert Satloff , Dennis Ross and David Makovskyt’s not too early to think about the “day after” the war—even preliminary planning to create an interim administration will help clarify objectives for Israel’s leaders, sustain U.S. support, provide a more positive alternative future for Palestinians, and give Arab allies a rationale to play a more constructive role.
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Oct 28, 2023 | 
alquds.com | David Makovsky
by David MakovskyWhether deliberate or a cruel historic irony, it is remarkable that the Hamas’ barbaric massacre on October 7, which killed 1,400 and injured over 3,300 Israelis, came fifty years and a day after the 1973 war. That war was defined by strategic surprise: Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the holiest day of the year. The postwar Agranat Commission of Inquiry investigated not just the operational surprise but the conceptual failure.
