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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There are consequences if you act militarily, and there’s big consequences if you don’t act. Dennis Ross Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means. Dennis Ross Read Quote
Overwhelmingly, Israel’s political and military establishment want the rest of the world to act diplomatically or otherwise to stop Iran. But if that doesn’t happen, then the impulse toward the use of force will become quite strong. Dennis Ross Read Quote
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table. Dennis Ross Read Quote
