Obama Ready to Strike to Stop Iran: Ex-Adviser (Dennis Ross)

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4. "who last month rejoined the Washington Institute for Near East Policy"

Says all I need to know about Ross.


The establishment of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) in 1985 greatly expanded the pro-Israel lobby's influence over policy as well. WINEP's founding director, Martin Indyk, had previously been research director of AIPAC which, then as now, focuses much of its efforts on Congress. Indyk developed WINEP into a highly effective think tank devoted to maintaining and strengthening the US-Israel alliance through advocacy in the media and lobbying the executive branch.

The result was the 1993 Oslo Declaration of Principles.

Thus, the adoption of WINEP's policy recommendation to "resist pressures for a procedural breakthrough" by both the Bush and Clinton administrations delayed the start of meaningful Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, contributed to the demonization of the PLO and multiplied the casualty rate of the first Palestinian intifada.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy