The Biden foreign policy team
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A guide to the Biden administration’s first moves and initial set of senior officials.
By Bob Silverman
(May 20, 2021 / Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security) Interest in the new U.S. foreign policy team in Israel and elsewhere in the region is strong and growing, following the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence and Biden administration responses. What follows is a guide to the group and to some of the individuals in it, with a focus on their impact on U.S. policy.
President Biden’s foreign policy people are members in good standing of the Washington foreign policy establishment. This establishment is composed of like-minded former government officials, Democrats, Republicans and independents. They sit in office suites throughout Washington, D.C., and work as lobbyists, strategic advisers on government affairs, consultants, lawyers, industry association officials and think tank scholars, with an occasional investment banker fro
things? at least when you are doing real diplomacy rather than bad hollywood you have something to say. i just thought it was embarrassing for the presidents involved let alone for the embassy. it was such a puff piece for obama, it is hard to imagine what they would get out of it. i get why it was a puff piece for obama, but it was embarrassing nonetheless. i agree. thank you. that is the nicest thing anyone has ever called me. i will try to do better. you said netanyahu supported romney and asked how far back in time we have to go before we could question the relationship between israel and america the way we can now. i was going say maybe jimmy carter, but i guess he did the whole israel- egypt peace treaty. we said it goes back to eisenhower. and when israel, britain and france invaded egypt to
but to say that the process has been designed in order to facilitate occupation i think is an overstatement. you have to go and look at the archaeology of all the deals that have been snind clueding what president clinton worked on. all of these things go back to ideas that are generated by begin in 1978. we re with the agreement that president carter made as part of the israel-egypt peace treaty. that s the framework in which prime minister begin and president clinton negotiated and that s designed it s not american policy. it has become american policy. it isn t. under people like dennis ross. if you look at 9193 we don t have to go back to 1978, looking at terms of oslo where there are terms of reference to international law. there s no prohibition of
real diplomacy rather than bad hollywood you have something to say. i just thought it was embarrassing for the presidents involved let alone for the embassy. it was such a puff piece for obama, it is hard to imagine what they would get out of it. i get why it was a puff piece for obama, but it was embarrassing nonetheless. i agree. thank you. that is the nicest thing anyone has ever called me. i will try to do better. you said netanyahu supported romney and asked how far back in time we have to go before we could question the relationship between israel and america the way we can now. i was going say maybe jimmy carter, but i guess he did the whole israel- egypt peace treaty. we said it goes back to eisenhower. and when israel, britain and france invaded egypt to take back the sue wees suez
israelis two years ago and other things that the holocaust didn t exist. there is suspicious things he is saying. with all the turmoil, i am wondering is he with us or against us? we were quite concerned about those statements. the egyptian presidency repudiated them. they reaffirmed to the israel-egypt peace treaty that is core to everything that we hope to see happen in the middle east. you have to take a step back and look at the fact that the people now in power in these countries have never been in government, never had a chance to really learn how to run agencies or to make decisions. so we don t certainly condone or any way approve of what a lot of these leaders are doing or failing to do, but we also know how important it is that we try