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Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.

~Dennis Ross

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Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

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Topics: Common Common Enemy Deal Enemy Important Interests Israeli Palestinian Partners Security Serve Something Threat You

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We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.

~Dennis Ross

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It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East.

~Dennis Ross

Topics: Afford America Attachment East Eastern Four Gaining Hat He Inspires Iran Israel Know Leverage Middle Middle East Middle Eastern More Neither Nor Obama Radical Strategic Support Ultimately Understands Years

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It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.

~Dennis Ross

Topics: Act Administration Agreed Been Both Broader Change East Government Honor Middle Middle East Obama Obama Administration Obviously Only Particularly Period President Promise Promised Return Serve Still Time Two Unprecedented Wife Work Would Years

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Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.

~Dennis Ross

Topics: Always Arafat Been Cause Close Done Door Everything Governed He His Leader Leave Life Never Open Options Palestinians Struggle Whole

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Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.

~Dennis Ross

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There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

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Topics: Act Big Consequences You

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You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.

~Dennis Ross

Topics: Act Afford Any Between Communication Conflict Countries Hair Having High Iranians Israelis Local Nuclear Nuclear War Potential Second Simply Sort Strike Through Too Trigger Triggers War Where You

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I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program.

~Dennis Ross

Topics: Act Back Basically Came Capability Certainly Conclusion Discount Iran Iranian Israelis Live Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Possibility Prepared Program Set Themselves Weapons World Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Diplomat

Born: November 26th, 1948

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