Martin Indyk
Martin Indyk
Martin Sean Indykis the Vice President and Director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He took leave from the Brookings Institution to serve as the U.S. Special Envoy for Israeli–Palestinian Negotiations from 2013 to 2014. Indyk served as United States ambassador to Israel and Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton Administration. He is known as the framer of the U.S. policy of dual containment which sought to 'contain' Iraq and Iran,...
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The process to try to bring Sunnis and Shiites together can be overwhelmed,
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Chairman Arafat is not in Gaza, he's traveling around the world, and therefore one critical player in this process is not available to us at the moment.
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We will not seek to delay unnecessarily the transition to a permanent lifting of sanctions, ... We would like to see Libya genuinely comply and return to full participation in the family of nations. But the requirements set by the Security Council must first be addressed.
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promotion of U.S. interests in the Middle East, especially in support of President Clinton's efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace.
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to take steps to curb the incitement, curb the violence.
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We will be launching an effort to help them organize and coordinate their case against Saddam Hussein,
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There is a certain irony in this because so much of the effort of the quartet had been spent on reducing the powers of the presidency and building up the powers of the prime minister and cabinet.
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It is time for (Hussein) to go, ... As long as he is around, nothing is going to change his brutal behavior.
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It will take time and hard work. A lot more will be done behind the scenes than will be noticeable publicly, at least at first.
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There is a lot of blame to go around. But on the American side, the conceptual failure that contributed to disaster was the president's belief that democracy and elections solve everything.
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Jeopardizing the national security interests of the U.S. is absolutely abhorrent to me, and I would never do anything to compromise those interests,
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I think Washington is assessing now what the best time would be for stepped up engagement. But they'll make that decision in Washington.
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We too have high hopes that a new era is going to begin very shortly.
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He's such a dominant political figure. Now, more than ever, is the party that he just formed so dominant in the polls that it really shakes the whole political system to its core. It's impossible to say how it's going to settle down until we see whether he recovers or what shape he's going to be in.