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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 344

Philip Gordon

US President Joe Biden announces a proposed truce-hostage deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza at the White House's State Dining Room in Washington, DC, May 31, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)
August 15, 2024, 7:31 am
A Biden speech urging national Israeli reckoning was shelved at the last minute. Here’s why
Top aides crafted address on Israel’s choice between integration and isolation, but instead went with another speech exposing details of Jerusalem’s freshly submitted ceasefire offer
By Jacob Magid
US Vice President Kamala Harris’s national security adviser Philip Gordon speaks at the Herzliya Conference, June 24, 2024. (Ronen Topelberg)
June 24, 2024, 10:51 pm
Senior US official: Rejecting Biden hostage deal won’t bring total victory
Speaking in Israel, VP Kamala Harris’s national security adviser says Hamas is walking away from own proposal; US envoy says he understands Israel’s ‘impatience’ over weapons
By Lazar Berman
President Barack Obama stands with Vice President Joe Biden as he makes a statement about Syria in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
April 26, 2016, 6:55 am
Obama tried to ‘pivot away’ from the Middle East, ex-adviser says
Philip Gordon also says US should have bombed Assad when he gassed his people in 2013
By ToI Staff
In this April 1, 2015, file photo, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, right, speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and Robert Malley, left, then-senior director for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf States at the US National Security Council, on the sidelines of the Iran nuclear talks at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron, File)
December 11, 2015, 2:44 pm
Dropped for meeting Hamas, Rob Malley is now Obama’s ‘czar’ for tackling Islamic State
7 years ago, Malley ended his role as informal adviser to presidential campaign after it emerged he’d been holding talks with Gaza’s Islamist rulers, considered a terror group by US
By Josh Lederman
Robert Malley, the Obama administration's new National Security Council senior director. (screen capture: YouTube)
March 8, 2015, 3:13 pm
White House names Israel critic to top Mideast post
Robert Malley, to become NSC point person on Middle East, has drawn fire for saying the Palestinians weren’t at fault for the failed peace talks in 2000
By JTA
Philip Gordon, White House coordinator for the Middle East, speaks at the Israel Conference on Peace in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2014 (photo credit: screen shot haaretz.co.il)
February 3, 2015, 9:41 pm
Top White House aide to visit Israel despite flagging ties
Philip Gordon, known for critical statements, will meet with senior officials in Jerusalem, Ramallah
By Tamar Pileggi
US Secretary of State John Kerry (L), former EU top diplomat Catherine Ashton (C) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) meet in Muscat on November 10, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/POOL/Nicholas KAMM)
November 18, 2014, 12:31 pm
On Iran nuclear deal, down to the wire in Vienna
With John Kerry waiting in the wings in London, any outcome is still possible in final week before deadline in negotiations on Tehran’s rogue program
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video address to the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly, November 11, 2014 (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)
November 12, 2014, 1:45 am
Netanyahu: US must confront Iran ‘as an enemy’
In address to Jewish leaders, PM says ‘alternative to a bad deal is not war’ but stronger sanctions
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
Philip Gordon, National Security Council coordinator for the Middle East, arrives at the State Department in Washington, Monday, July 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
November 11, 2014, 9:36 am
Senior US official: Missed Iran deadline would reduce deal chances
Philip Gordon says issues remain which ‘we are simply not prepared to accommodate,’ but believes differences are bridgeable
By JTA
US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during their March 3, 2014, meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
October 1, 2014, 3:27 am
US talk of thawing Iran relations highlights rift with Israel
Differences over looming nuclear talks deadline likely to dominate Wednesday’s Obama-Netanyahu meeting
By Ron Kampeas
Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaking on the Senate floor. (photo credit: AP/Senate TV/File)
July 16, 2014, 1:52 pm
Cruz to introduce bill to renew Iran sanctions
In lengthy floor speech, Texas senator calls on White House to disavow adviser Gordon’s ‘misguided’ Tel Aviv address
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil
US President Barack Obama (right) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2014. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
July 11, 2014, 1:57 am
Obama, in call with Netanyahu, offers to mediate ceasefire
President backs Israel’s right to self-defense, condemns rocket fire, expresses concern over escalation of fighting with Hamas
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets British Prime Minister David Cameron at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on Wednesday, March 12, 2014. (Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL/Flash90)
July 10, 2014, 2:29 pm
PM speaks with Ban, Cameron, Merkel, Hollande, Harper — but not Obama
As government tries to bolster support for Gaza operation, some foreign ambassadors post supportive messages on social media
By Raphael Ahren
Philip Gordon, White House coordinator for the Middle East, speaks at the Israel Conference on Peace in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2014 (photo credit: screen shot haaretz.co.il)
July 9, 2014, 3:28 pm
Lecturing us on security, as the rockets fly in
The White House’s Middle East coordinator gave a risible speech Tuesday, asserting that the US knows how to keep Israel safe, at a conference that was halted by a Hamas attack
By David Horovitz
Philip Gordon, White House coordinator for the Middle East, speaks at the Israel Conference on Peace in Tel Aviv, July 8, 2014 (photo credit: screen shot haaretz.co.il)
July 9, 2014, 12:37 pm
‘As Israel’s greatest defender and closest friend, we owe it to you to ask fundamental questions’
Full text of speech at Haaretz’s Israel Conference for Peace by White House Mideast chief, Phillip Gordon
By ToI Staff
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