'Israel's advocate' to leave White House

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http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/11/20111111135650538116.html


Dennis Ross, Obama's strongly pro-Israel Middle East aide, will leave his post for a position in pro-Israel think tank.


Dennis Ross, President Barack Obama's top Middle East aide who has attracted criticism for his allegedly strong pro-Israel sympathies, will leave his post at the end of this month, the White House announced Thursday.

He will rejoin the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), an Israel-centred think tank that was spun off in 1985 from the powerful lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Ross served as WINEP's counsellor and a fellow during the George W Bush administration from 2001 to 2009.

"An institution that believes sound policy lies at the intersection of scholarship with statesmanship is especially proud that Dennis is returning to his intellectual home," said WINEP's executive director Dr Robert Satloff.

-very long snip about what he did and didn't do-

"Dennis Ross is returning to the outpost of the Israel Lobby whence he came, leaving a diplomatic shambles behind him," according to Ambassador Chas Freeman (ret.), former head of the US Middle East Policy Council.
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there should NOT be an 'Israel advocate' in the W.H.

[Tippy]

1. "there should NOT be an 'Israel advocate' in the W.H."

You got that right...

[riverwalker]

2. good riddance

and a departure long overdue.

[geardaddy]

3. Maybe there's room now for the "99% advocate"

[leftyohiolib]

4. isreal is a big boy now and it's time to leave mommie's basement and

experience life as an adult