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3 weeks ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dennis Ross
Practitioners of American statecraft have always used our leverage—positive and negative—to alter the behavior of others. For President Donald Trump, applying pressure on other countries and groups in order to advance U.S. interests comes very naturally. He’s done so with the Houthis in Yemen to stop their attacks on international shipping and on Israel—objectives that have not yet been achieved.
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2 months ago | 
thecipherbrief.com | Dennis Ross
Posted: February 7th, 2025
EXPERT Q&A — The Cipher Brief turned to Ambassador Dennis Ross to discuss Trump’s proposal to “take over” Gaza, and the discussion it has sparked about Gaza’s future. Ambassador Ross, a longtime Middle East negotiator who served as a special assistant to President Obama, said Trump’s call should provoke fresh thinking about how to actually go about the staggering task of Gaza’s reconstruction of Gaza.
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2 months ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib |Matthew Duss |Khaled Elgindy |Dalia Hatuqa |Sara Khorshid |Aaron Miller | +4 more
Foreign & Public Diplomacy Middle East and North Africa On the evening of Feb. 4, U.S. President Donald Trump shocked the world—including many lawmakers in his own party—by announcing that the United States will “take over” the Gaza Strip.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
thecipherbrief.com | Dennis Ross
Posted: January 17th, 2025
EXPERT INTERVIEW — On the day the Israeli cabinet voted to approve the long-awaited ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, The Cipher Brief spoke with a former advisor to U.S. presidents who has known his share of painstaking negotiations with the various parties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and others in the Middle East.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dennis Ross
Foreign & Public Diplomacy Iran Iran makes no secret of its commitment to seek Israel’s destruction. Its strategy is to keep it under constant pressure and consume it in ongoing conflicts on its borders. While that is plain to see, Israel’s current approach seems, ironically, to be playing into Iran’s hands.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
haaretz.com | Dennis Ross
Opinion | Martin Indyk, who spent decades working for a breakthrough in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, was never naïve, especially about the rejectionists on both sides. But even just before he died, he had faith in a two-state solution, telling me: 'I've seen the Promised Land, I've negotiated the details.
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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 10, 2024 | 
fathomjournal.org | Elliott Abrams |Dennis Ross |Yair Hirschfeld
In the third episode of the Fathom series ‘Those who tried: Conversations with the Peace Processors’, Yair Hirschfeld recalls his role in the process which led to the Oslo Accords. Based on his experience in Oslo and subsequent peace tracks, that attempts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict decisively, and all in one go, do not work.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
almendron.com | Dennis Ross
“Oslo” has become a dirty word for its critics. Things looked very different 30 years ago on Sept. 13, 1993, on the White House lawn. The iconic handshake between historic enemies Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, with President Bill Clinton spreading his arms to draw them together, was an extraordinary moment of hope.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
fathomjournal.org | Dennis Ross |Calev Ben-Dor |Hussein Agha |Bren Carlill
‘The Challenges of Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Dispute: An Impossible Peace?’ is published this month by Palgrave Macmillan. In this Fathom essay its author Bren Carlill presents the book’s central and sobering argument: ‘existential’ conflicts cannot be resolved. Only when the objectives of both sides soften to become ‘territorialist’ can the Israeli–Palestinian dispute be negotiated. How do we introduce the uninitiated to the complexities of the Israeli–Palestinian dispute?
