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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

Daniel Kurtzer

Left to Right: Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat at Camp David, July 2000. (William J. Clinton Presidential Library/ Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
January 22, 2021, 2:50 pm
Room where it didn’t happen: US mediators reveal failed Israel-PLO peace talks
In ‘The Human Factor,’ key American negotiators answer Israeli director Dror Moreh’s pointed questions about how a peace plan spanning two administrations crashed and burned
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ben Rhodes participates in the 'Stranger than Fiction: A Conversation with Cast Members of the West Wing' panel at Politicon at the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 20, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)
May 5, 2020, 10:29 pm
Former US national security officials urge Dems to oppose annexation in platform
In letter to DNC, more than 30 Democratic foreign policy veterans push for 2020 document to take strong stance against Israel extending sovereignty over West Bank territories
By Eric Cortellessa
An old Israeli tank with a flag overlooking the Syrian town of Quneitra in the Golan Heights on February 11, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 18, 2018, 7:39 pm
US House panel considers recognizing Israeli annexation of Golan Heights
Florida Republican Ron DeSantis convenes subcommittee of Oversight Committee for hearing, but no legislation pending
By JTA
President Shimon Peres meets with the US Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations, former US ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, in Jerusalem on August 11, 2013. (Photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/FLASH90)
December 8, 2017, 3:43 am
9 out of 11 former US envoys to Israel oppose Trump’s Jerusalem declaration
While some of the ex-ambassadors sympathize with idea, they tell New York Times it’s a missed opportunity to advance the peace process
By ToI Staff
Andrew Silow-Carroll
May 10, 2017, 3:49 pm
Andrew Silow-Carroll
Everyone is policing free speech
He wishes those on both sides of the political divide would hear each other, or what’s democracy for?
Sebastian Gorka participating in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/JTA)
May 2, 2017, 12:20 am
5 reasons why Sebastian Gorka may be on his way out of the White House
Possibilities extend beyond the Trump adviser’s affiliation to the Nazi-allied Vitezi Rand
By Ron Kampeas
Donald Trump, center, along with his daughter Ivanka Trump, right, and attorney David Friedman, left, exit the Federal Building following their appearance in U.S. Bankruptcy Court Thursday, Feb 25, 2010 in Camden, New Jersey. (Bradley C Bower/Bloomberg News / Getty images, via JTA)
December 17, 2016, 10:23 am
NYT slams ‘dangerous’ Friedman appointment as Israel envoy
In editorial, paper warns Trump lawyer holds ‘extremist views’ on the conflict; former Bush envoy Kurtzer also cautions move will be ‘hazardous to peace’
By ToI Staff
Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer presents his credentials to President Barack Obama at the White House, December 4, 2013. (photo credit: Twitter/Amb. Ron Dermer)
January 29, 2015, 10:24 am
White House lashes Israeli envoy over Netanyahu speech
Ron Dermer accused by ‘outraged’ officials of harming US-Israel ties; Bush-era ambassador to Israel calls him a ‘political operative’
By ToI Staff
Former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer at Princeton University, February 1, 2011 (AP/Mel Evans)
October 23, 2014, 2:41 pm
Former US envoy: ‘Sense of betrayal’ in Obama-Netanyahu relationship
Dismal personal ties affect the entire alliance, which could run into ‘serious problems’ if Israel gets too cozy with China, Dan Kurtzer warns
By Raphael Ahren
2014 J Street national summit at Temple Emanu-El in San Francisco (Marc Hors/J Street)
June 9, 2014, 1:41 pm
At the J Street national summit, wondering what’s next
BDS is still a ‘red line,’ says J Street head Jeremy Ben-Ami, who claims his group is ‘squarely in the middle of the conversation’
By Arno Rosenfeld
Police and press seen during preparations for the funeral of former prime minister Ariel Sharon outside Sharon's Sycamore Ranch in the Negev, Monday, January 13, 2014 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 13, 2014, 2:40 pm
Disengaging from Arik
Ariel Sharon may have pulled away from Gaza, but the Strip is still very much with him, coloring his legacy and even the security at his funeral
By Joshua Davidovich
Obama's first attempt to reach Israel by swimming failed ignominously. In March he will take the plane. (photo credit: Pete Souza/Official White House photo)
February 6, 2013, 2:53 pm
BHO gets an OMG
Obama shoots coverage of the Knesset swearing-in and Burgas bombing report off the top of the front pages like a clay pigeon
By Joshua Davidovich
Construction work at the Jewish settlement of Har Gilo, July 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
December 2, 2012, 11:39 am
US reportedly blindsided by Israel’s move to approve settlement building
Sources tell New York Times that Netanyahu informed Washington of the plan just hours before it was announced
By Asher Zeiger
The Crisis of Zionism book cover
April 15, 2012, 2:24 pm
The Crisis of Zionism, by Peter Beinart
In ‘The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart traces the history of Zionism to show how a once liberal movement came to be affiliated with conservative politics and antidemocratic policies, splitting the American Jewish community into two hostile camps. He then shows how this division came to be personified on the world stage by the two leaders at the center of the crisis today: Barack Obama, who Beinart calls America’s first ‘Jewish president,’ and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister who considers liberalism the Jewish people’s special curse.
April 15, 2012, 11:02 am
Talia Sasson: We had no state for 2,000 years. Why are we now jeopardizing its Jewish, democratic essence?
The revival of Israel was a miracle. The settlement enterprise risks destroying it, says the legal expert and left-wing activist who wrote a landmark report for Sharon on West Bank outposts
By David Horovitz
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