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1 week ago | 
fathomjournal.org | Elliott Abrams |Dennis Ross |Gidi Grinstein |Yair Hirschfeld
Attorney Gilead Sher is a former Israeli senior peace negotiator and Chief of Staff to PM Ehud Barak. Formerly a peace negotiator under PM Rabin, he is a Rice University’s Baker Institute fellow and a former senior fellow at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Studies INSS. In 2023, Sher co-founded the Central Resistance Headquarters for the pro-democracy struggle.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Dennis Ross
Good statecraft depends on marrying objectives to means. Although this is seemingly obvious, America often fails because presidents adopt the wrong objectives. Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam and George W. Bush in Iraq failed because they did not understand what they were getting into, and the U.S. lacked the means to achieve our objectives at an acceptable price. The U.S. may have failed in these cases, but using coercion and force to achieve political ends is often necessary.
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1 month 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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Feb 7, 2025 | 
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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Feb 6, 2025 | 
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.
