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Haaretz
April 17, 2018
HEARD LAST NIGHT -- At J Street's gala dinner honoring the group's president Jeremy Ben-Ami, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) thanked J Street for working closely with the Obama administration to get 42 Democrats to support the Iran nuclear deal in 2015. “Two years ago, I came to J Street to thank you forÃÂ ...
Defense One
April 17, 2018
A Trump Doctrine for the Middle East // Martin Indyk: The region has now been Trump-branded as “a troubled place”—and one America is not particularly interested in helping. Trump's Syria Strategy Actually Makes Sense // Kori Schake: And it does not involve a commitment to change the horrible andÃÂ ...
The Nation.
April 17, 2018
The president of the New America Foundation, Anne Marie Slaughter, tweeted that she believes that the United States, the United Kingdom, and France did “the right thing” by striking Syria. The Brookings Institution's Martin Indyk gave President Trump “three cheers” for “enforcing the line against SyrianÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
April 16, 2018
Syria Strikes: When the U.S. military, aided by Britain and France, struck three government targets in Syria on Friday, President Trump declared the three Western nations had “marshaled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality.” Yet it's not clear whether the retaliation against this month'sÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
April 16, 2018
But it's wrong to suggest, as Martin Indyk concludes in The Atlantic, that the Trump administration's Middle East policy is effectively no different from President Obama's “leading from behind.” Critics are not giving Trump enough credit: He does have a strategy for Syria and the broader Middle East.
Jweekly.com
April 5, 2018
Martin Indyk, the former U.S. special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, used the prime minister's nickname in labeling his attack on NIF a “Bibiesque/Trump-style deflection.” “He was the one to negotiate, sign, announce and then renege on the agreement on asylum-seekers. But it's not his fault.
Al-Monitor
March 8, 2018
During this time, Nader also served as a frequent go-between in informal Syrian-Israeli talks encouraged by the Clinton administration before abruptly disappearing from the Washington scene around 2000. “He was a reliable go-between, a facilitator,” Martin Indyk, who knew Nader when Indyk served asÃÂ ...
NPR
March 6, 2018
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is specifically reaching out to progressives. Steve Inskeep talks to former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk about the U.S.-Israel relationship. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Today Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a vital group of supporters,ÃÂ ...
Haaretz
February 21, 2018
"An international conference would be a non-starter especially since everything you hear about the US peace plan is not necessarily consistent with previous UN resolutions." Martin Indyk tweets: "Abu Mazen's UNSC speech this morning was moderate in tone and gave the 2Js (Kushner and Greenblatt)ÃÂ ...
Haaretz
February 20, 2018
Former U.S. Ambassador Martin Indyk emails... “It depends what Friedman means by 'significant evacuation.' Since the vast majority of settlers live in the large settlement blocs, it would be possible to create a Palestinian state on some 94% of the West Bank and only some 20% of settlers would have to beÃÂ ...
Mintpress News
February 20, 2018
And that last statement represented the second 'game changer': In 'good old days', as Martin Indyk called it, it would have been to the US that Israel reflexively would have turned, but not this time. Israel asked President Putin to mediate. It seems that Israel believes that Mr. Putin is now the 'indispensableÃÂ ...
Haaretz
February 12, 2018
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New York Times
January 5, 2017
As President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to assume office, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been forced onto his agenda by President Obama's decision to have the United States abstain on United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli settlements. Mr. Trump hasÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
September 13, 2016
Mehdi Hasan: Martin Indyk, your former boss, US Secretary of State John Kerry, has said that the United States can, "serve as the facilitator, the honest broker in an effort to reach a peace deal in the Middle East." But given the US supports, funds, arms Israel, the occupying power, that's nonsense, isn't it?
FRONTLINE
January 5, 2016
In the early days of his administration, President Barack Obama had a theory about Israel. “It was a wrong theory of the case,” says longtime diplomat Martin Indyk, but a theory nonetheless: If the president could put distance between the United States and Israel, then just maybe he could build up credibilityÃÂ ...
Forward
December 31, 1999
For a more comprehensive consideration of events in the Middle East, I recommend Martin Indyk's analysis in The Atlantic, in which he posits that the Trump administration is indeed developing its own doctrine — one that gives America an ever-diminishing role, leaving a potentially dangerous vacuum ofÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Martin Indyk on Pompeo: “Pompeo appears to have the trust of the President and, as CIA Director, managed to win the trust of the nation's spies - no easy task. He is a seasoned politician and has a record of brilliant academic achievement. He is a hard-liner to be sure but not an ideologue. He's well-suitedÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
BRUSSELS — The operatic ouster of Rex Tillerson leaves a State Department angry and adrift, and a world even more confused about the management and direction of American foreign policy, hoping but not expecting that the change leads to greater coherence in Washington. The angst is being feltÃÂ ...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
December 31, 1999
It is worth recalling the comment of Martin Indyk, who was part of the American team under Obama: while PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas “checked out of the negotiations," Israeli prime minister Netanyahu "moved into the zone of a possible agreement." Indyk spreads blame to both parties, but hisÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
"The fact that he is the son-in-law of the President gives him a lot of cachet in the region," Martin Indyk said. "I have no doubt that he can still do his job -- and of course his aides will have access." ... Elliott Abrams said in an email he believes Kushner "will be fully capable of continuing to oversee AmericanÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
Suffice it to mention Dennis Ross, who headed the Middle East peace teams under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, ambassadors Martin Indyk and Dan Shapiro, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. However, never has an adherent of such a tiny messianic minority held such a strongÃÂ ...
CNN
December 31, 1999
Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel who tackled peace negotiations during the Clinton and Obama administrations, said Kushner's lost access will make his job "more difficult" but that it's "not a critical setback." "What matters to the actors out in the region more than whether he has the confidenceÃÂ ...
Egypttoday
January 31, 2018
Former envoys like Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk and others knew this. The borders proposed by the U.S. and Israel will be drawn in blood, as anyone familiar with the Arab-Israeli conflict and its transformations would say. Unlike what Americans and Israelis believe, the conflict will not only be about theÃÂ ...
World Israel News
January 30, 2018
When those talks ended abruptly, Obama accused both sides of lacking the political will to make tough decisions, with the Israeli media focusing on the role of Obama's special envoy Martin Indyk, who reportedly blamed the breakdown mostly on Israel. Shapiro joined INSS in March 2017 as a DistinguishedÃÂ ...
Iran Focus
January 27, 2018
This was even admitted to by Martin Indyk, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the Clinton Administration, who said: “[There] was White House interest in opening up a dialogue with the Iranian government. Top Administration officials saw cracking down on the [MEK], which the IraniansÃÂ ...
Iran Focus
January 26, 2018
This was even admitted to by Martin Indyk, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the Clinton Administration, who said: “[There] was White House interest in opening up a dialogue with the Iranian government. Top Administration officials saw cracking down on the [MEK], which the IraniansÃÂ ...
Iran News Update (blog)
January 24, 2018
Martin Indyk, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the Clinton Administration. The allegation of terrorism levied against MEK by the US Department of State has its roots in the Iran-Contra (Irangate) scandal of the mid-1980s, when in exchange for the release of American hostages held inÃÂ ...
Jordan Times
January 24, 2018
... aftermath of the Gulf War and what was known as the Desert Storm at that time, Martin Indyk, then executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and foreign relations analyst with expertise in the region, explicated that anti-American feelings have "long been present in the Arab world".
Forward
January 21, 2018
It is rare for a United States ambassador to challenge his superior, the secretary of state. And it is even rarer for the ambassador to succeed. But that is exactly what David Friedman, the top U.S. diplomat to Israel, did recently. Taking advantage of his close ties to President Trump, Friedman took issue withÃÂ ...
The New Arab
January 19, 2018
On Tuesday the former US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, Martin Indyk, took to Twitter to announce that the President had changed his mind on the biggest Middle East crisis in years, now in its seventh month. He said: "Trump is no longer following the Saudi/UAE script on Qatar. ProbablyÃÂ ...
Middle East Monitor
January 18, 2018
Former US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations Martin Indyk has taken to Twitter to announce that US President Donald Trump is no longer following the Saudi/UAE script on Qatar. Trump is no longer following the Saudi/UAE script on Qatar. Probably because the Qs are now cooperating onÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
January 15, 2018
The envoys, namely, Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk, Aaron David Miller and James Steinberg, were “receptive” to the extent that Palestinians thought at one point that it was a trick. Some Arab media reports described them as 'four Rabbis running the US foreign policy'. “But eventually [Palestinian PresidentÃÂ ...
St. Louis Jewish Light
January 11, 2018
Martin Indyk. Dennis Ross. Daniel Kurtzer. Steven P. Cohen. The Arab world understood this. And it didn't undermine anything because they spoke for administrations whose pro-Israel prejudices, such as they were, were understood from the get-go. It didn't matter that the interlocutors were Jews or hadÃÂ ...
Korea Times
December 22, 2017
But, as former U.S. special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations Martin Indyk put it, the Americans "can try to limit the damage all they want, but they won't be able to, because Jerusalem is such a hot-button issue." That reality was reflected in the eruption of street protests across the Middle East soonÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online
December 18, 2017
Numerous independent accounts and scholarly works have autopsied the negative influence of Dennis Ross as well as Martin Indyk, the latter who twice served as U.S. ambassador to Israel, on the overall American peace efforts. Both Ross and Indyk co-founded an AIPAC-spinoff think tank and wereÃÂ ...
JNS.org
December 15, 2017
But in 2013, he suddenly became the right-hand man of Martin Indyk, a former ambassador to Israel and the Obama administration's chief Mideast peace negotiator. Indyk is widely recognized as one of the most pro-Palestinian American diplomats in the history of U.S. diplomacy in that region. MakovskyÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
December 13, 2017
By speaking only of Israel's claims and underscoring their religious basis, the Trump administration demonstrated its indifference to the religious and political claims of Palestinians. The president could easily have also spoken of an embassy for Palestine to be located in East Jerusalem, as Martin Indyk hasÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
December 12, 2017
“I do not think we will ever see a more pragmatic leader in that country,” Otaiba emailed former US special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations Martin Indyk in April. “Which is why engaging with them is so important and will yield the most results we can ever get out of Saudi [Arabia]." The UAE isÃÂ ...
Al-Monitor
December 12, 2017
Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel, tweeted last week that a recently completed US consular facility in West Jerusalem could fit the bill and house relocated embassy staff. Indyk knows whereof he speaks. As US ambassador and a senior member of the Middle East negotiating teams underÃÂ ...
Bend Bulletin
December 9, 2017
Trump also could have said, as the former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk suggested, that he'd decided “to begin the process of moving the embassy to western Jerusalem, but at the same time was declaring his willingness to make a parallel announcement that he would establish an embassy to theÃÂ ...
NPR
June 8, 2017
MARTIN INDYK: Well, I would say that while we made a massive effort to meet the basic needs of both sides in formulas that the two sides could accept, the bottom line was when we put them to Abu Mazen, he was not prepared to accept them. He was not prepared to answer. Let's put it that way. He didn'tÃÂ ...
New York Times
January 5, 2017
As President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to assume office, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been forced onto his agenda by President Obama's decision to have the United States abstain on United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli settlements. Mr. Trump hasÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
September 13, 2016
Mehdi Hasan: Martin Indyk, your former boss, US Secretary of State John Kerry, has said that the United States can, "serve as the facilitator, the honest broker in an effort to reach a peace deal in the Middle East." But given the US supports, funds, arms Israel, the occupying power, that's nonsense, isn't it?
FRONTLINE
January 5, 2016
In the early days of his administration, President Barack Obama had a theory about Israel. “It was a wrong theory of the case,” says longtime diplomat Martin Indyk, but a theory nonetheless: If the president could put distance between the United States and Israel, then just maybe he could build up credibilityÃÂ ...
Mintpress News
December 31, 1999
And that last statement represented the second 'game changer': In 'good old days', as Martin Indyk called it, it would have been to the US that Israel reflexively would have turned, but not this time. Israel asked President Putin to mediate. It seems that Israel believes that Mr. Putin is now the 'indispensableÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Lawrence Bacow speaks after being introduced as the 29th president of Harvard University on Sunday, February 11, 2018, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bill Sikes/AP. Have our people email your people. Tell your friends to sign up for the Daily Kickoff here! WIRED COVER STORY: "Inside Facebook'sÃÂ ...
Las Vegas Sun
November 19, 2017
... found myself bundled off to the Middle East with another great Brookings scholar, and one of the foremost diplomats of our time, Martin Indyk.
The Cairo Review of Global Affairs (blog)
November 12, 2017
In an interview with the New York Times in July 2014, former U.S. Middle East envoy Martin Indyk blamed the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian ...
Haaretz
November 9, 2017
Martin Indyk tweets: "Some experts see latest ME developments as effort by Saudi Arabia and Israel to pull US back into the region. I see it as ...
WBIR-TV
November 7, 2017
"Amazingly, Trump stuck to the script, gave a powerful speech and offered a carrot to NK while waving a big stick," tweeted Martin Indyk , ...
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