Welcome to What Matters Now, a weekly podcast exploring key issues currently shaping Israel and the Jewish World, with host deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan speaking with former US negotiator, adviser and ambassador Dennis Ross.
Today, Ross, an author and the counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, also teaches at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization.
For over a decade, Ross was the US point man on the arduous Israeli-Palestinian peace processes in both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. We close the program by hearing thoughts on the current talks to end the Gaza War from a negotiator who was in the room “when it happened” — or didn’t.
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First, we begin the program by asking Ross, who has decades of experience in Soviet and Middle East policy, for his analysis of this week’s Alaska summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin and the subsequent meet-up between Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders.
We then spin the globe and focus on Israel and the region — present and past, including the two milestones of the 2000 Camp David Summit and the 2005 Disengagement.
And so this week, we ask Ambassador Dennis Ross, what matters now.
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