New York – Ross: White House Took ‘conscious Decision To Try To Distance Itself From Israel’

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    Dennis Ross speaks at the annual Jerusalem Post Conference held in New York City, USA. May 22, 2016. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL New York – Barack Obama is one of five presidents in modern history who has made a “conscious decision to try to distance [himself and his administration] from Israel,” his former aide, Dennis Ross, said on Sunday.

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    Addressing The Jerusalem Post’s annual conference in New York, Ross, a veteran diplomat who has worked on peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians under the Reagan, H. W. Bush, Clinton and Obama administrations, said the White House has worked under the assumption that “Israel is more of a problem than it is a partner.”

    “If you distance yourself from Israel, you’ll gain with the Arabs,” Ross said, summing up the premise of the Obama administration’s policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    But he said the assumption is not unique to this White House as former presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter and H. W. Bush all tried to distance themselves from Israel for the same reason.

    Ross offered his analysis of the policy approach: “Every administration that has tried to distance itself from Israel has gained nothing,” he said.

    The diplomat also said the Obama administration worked toward a two-state solution believing it would bring peace to the wider Middle East, but argued that assumption is flawed, as well.

    “If tomorrow you could solve this issue, it wouldn’t stop one barrel bomb in Syria,” he said. “It wouldn’t change Iran’s ambition in the region. It wouldn’t change the challenges Egypt is facing.”

    Ross questioned whether a comprehensive peace deal is possible in the current political climate – both in Jerusalem and Ramallah. But he characterized himself as an optimist, and said his recent book, Doomed to Succeed, is intended to educate the next president on the mistakes of past negotiations.


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    chugibugi
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    chugibugi
    7 years ago

    Hey Dennis,please tell us something we don’t know,this traitorous America hating and Jew hating slime ball masquerading as our president,not only distanced himself from Israel but distanced himself from his own country that elected him president

    yankee96
    yankee96
    7 years ago

    if you vote for the demoRATS you are voting for the destruction of Israel.Vote Nadler and Friedlander OUT

    charliehall
    charliehall
    7 years ago

    He will probably be President Hillary Clinton’s Secretary of State.

    happypappy
    happypappy
    7 years ago

    I just read an article in Hamodia that Ross convinced Clinton not to release Pollard during rhe Wye accords,but to hold him as a pawn for greater xoncessions from Israel.
    Ross was just as bad as Obama.

    qazxc
    qazxc
    7 years ago

    Wow! According to the article Obama was as bad for Israel as Nixon and H.W. Bush!!!

    cool-3931
    cool-3931
    7 years ago

    It’s hard to know if all that he’s saying is 100 % truthful and it’s really hard to prove either way but that for Ross who worked for and was trusted by numerous presidents, and then to go and smear them so that he could sell his book in my view says something about Ross too and therefore not sure if we should take him for all that he’s saying … not that I doubt what he’s saying about this current president and administration.

    allmark
    allmark
    7 years ago

    Didn’t Nixon save Israel in 1973 with an emergency airlift of munitions?

    ChachoMoe
    ChachoMoe
    7 years ago

    “But he said the assumption is not unique to this White House as former presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Carter and H. W. Bush all tried to distance themselves from Israel for the same reason.”

    Yes, given that is (if!) the the case, however one huge difference regarding Obama, seeing the very same method has been tried and FAILED given that info, there was no reason to go down that path, unless there was another agenda..

    “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” – Albert Einstein –

    Zachor613
    Zachor613
    7 years ago

    Obama made his policy pitch right from the beginning at Cairo University June 2009.

    7 years ago

    Amazing how all one needs to do is read the title of the article and you can guess which news source wrote it. You just know the AP and (Arab-owned) Reuters would never print this article. Too bad, because the world needs to hear the truth!