Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross
Dennis B. Rossis an American diplomat and author. He has served as the Director of Policy Planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush, the special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton, and was a special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asiato the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 November 1948
CountryUnited States of America
month problem within
The problem is going to be within a month or two after disengagement there will be two completely different expectations as to what comes next.
moving thinking
If we didn't feel there was potential, we wouldn't be working this way. We wouldn't be thinking about the possibility of moving to a summit.
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On the Israeli side there is real questioning, you do not see any signs of dilemma on the other side.
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My focus right now is meeting with each side ... to see what kind of conclusions they have drawn about the insights that developed at Camp David, and then we'll see if there are ways to overcome the differences,
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make the decision on how to resume with the final procedures.
step
We have a beginning. It's a step in the right direction. Now we have to see results.
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To have peace in the Middle East, we are going to have to see that religion is a source of peace.
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The president ... wants me to focus on the security questions and I will be doing that,
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What's important is not meetings for their own sake but results ... that will have a consequence on the security environment.
looking meetings
We're not looking for meetings as an end in themselves. We're looking for results.
thinks
When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.
attacking deter great nuclear weapons
The nuclear weapons would deter us from attacking them, and they see that the weapons also give them great leverage.
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It's in Syria's interest to remove any cloud, any stigma, any questioning about where it's coming from and what it's doing,
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It looks as if the world sees Arafat as someone who ended his life as someone who was determined to prevent peace or was against it,