Talk:Dennis Ross

message: This reads as a bio from a speaker's catalogue. Not much objectivity here.
:I've removed some POV bits.  It should be better now.--Gloriamarie 19:55, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Early comment

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message: Obviously this article needs updating to is newest position and commentary on that.  And the listing of practically every article he ever wrote is obviously excessive. Best way to trim it down? CarolMooreDC (talk) 17:19, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I'd say keep the books and major policy papers, and get rid of all the op-eds/random newspaper articles.  Does that sound reasonable? Joshdboz (talk) 17:43, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have a problem with keep a few of the more important looking ones, but getting rid of 2/3 makes sense. Also some of external links are redundant to or better as references. CarolMooreDC (talk) 01:05, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I got rid of more (excessive!) external links that had piled up since that portion of the article was pruned in 2009. This might be worth including, as it is very current: Donald Trump Should Isolate Iran Immediately, by Dennis Ross and Jeb Bush (19 January 2017). It is from that Washington Institute website where he works, so I don't know if it is appropriate to add here. It probably is, as it was published in Time magazine too. I'll leave it to someone else to decide, as I already edited this BLP enough for one day.--FeralOink (talk) 11:31, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs update; Excessive Bibliography

message: Listing these since some may be of use to improving the article.
;The Boston Globe
*"The road map after Gaza", August 22, 2005
;Foreign Affairs
*"The Middle East Predicament", January/February 2005
;Foreign Policy
*"Think Again: Yasir Arafat", July/August 2002
;The Jerusalem Post
*"A cease-fire reality: Dealing with Damascus", August 22, 2006
*"The First Word: What Olmert can expect from Bush", April 6, 2006
*"Too confused to surrender", July 2, 2006
;The New Republic
*"How to Handle Iran", TNR TV: How to make Tehran obey, April 25, 2007 (with Franklin Foer)
*"Internal Affairs", Don't count on Iran and Syria to solve our problems in Iraq. December 7, 2006
*"Roll Back", Israel's war with Lebanon looks like bad news for the United States. But, actually, it's an opportunity. July 22, 2006
*"Squeeze Play", Approach Tehran with sticks, not carrots. April 25, 2007
*Statecraft (Ross's column--Selected articles below)
**"Balance of Power", The British sailors told us who's really running Iran, April 23, 2007
**"Talk to Syria", Why Israel--and the United States--should talk to Syria. May 7, 2007
**"Ways and Means", Introducing a new column on the art of statecraft, April 9, 2007
;The New York Times
*"Can Arafat Stop the Violence?", Now, at last, Yasir Arafat must decide that the Palestinian Authority will not be a safe haven for terrorists. December 4, 2001
*"Don't Play With Maps" What's the greatest barrier to Mideast peace? Mythology. The New York Times, January 9, 2007
*"Mideast Peace, One Day at a Time" For now, let's stop the killing. The road map can wait. May 8, 2003
*"Peace, One Very Small Step at a Time", February 9, 2001
;USA Today
*"Arafat's death can breathe life into peace process", Yasser Arafat has dominated the Palestinian national movement for the past 40 years. He has been a fixture on the landscape of the Middle East. He came to embody the Palestinian cause and was determined that no other Palestinian figure could emerge as a possible alternative to him. November 10, 2004
*"The danger of a Sharon exit", Life after Sharon will not be so simple, particularly as Palestinians prepare to hold elections Wednesday and Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization, is poised to do well. January 23, 2006
*"A moment of truth for Syria", During the nearly 30-year rule of Hafez Assad, Syria came to control Lebanon and used terrorist groups Hezbollah, Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to exert pressure (and at times reduce it) on others in the region. His son, Bashar, who has been the Syrian president for the past five years, seems to lack his father's guile and understanding of limits that need to be respected. November 8, 2005
*"An opening in the Mideast", President Bush declared in Europe that the world cannot rest until there is peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Certainly he knew that Europeans would welcome such words. But I suspect this was less a tactical gesture to the Europeans and more a statement of intent, reflecting his commitment to act on what he sees as an opportunity for promoting peace. March 2, 2005
*"U.S. should help construct an 'Arab umbrella'", In order to prevent the current crisis in the Middel East from growing, the United States must work with the Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians and others who seem to recognize that Iran is manipulating Hezbollah and Hamas for its purposes. Such an "Arab umbrella" could justify in deploying the Lebanese army to Israel's border. July 18, 2006
;The Wall Street Journal
*"The Arab Coalition", From Iraq's neighbors, reason to hope for peace and reform.  March 20, 2003
*"The Hidden Threat in the Mideast" Iran and Syria try to open a second front. July 24, 2002
*"No Sir, Yasser" Prepare to break relations with Arafat. February 2, 2002
;The Washington Post
*"After Arafat, What?", November 5, 2004
*"The Art of Possible Peace", Rice's First Task: A Viable Israeli-Palestinian Cease-Fire, February 15, 2007
*"A Cease-Fire Reality: Dealing With Syria", August 17, 2006
*"Deadline for Hussein", Obfuscation after Dec. 8 should trigger war. November 12, 2002
*"Egypt's New Role", July 2, 2004
*"Give Hamas Nothing for Free", February 5, 2006
*"A New Strategy on Iran", May 1, 2006
*"Palestinian Stirrings", January 2, 2005
*"A Plan for Iraq", October 15, 2004
*"A Race Against Time in The Mideast", May 25, 2005
*"The Specter of 'Hamastan'", More Must Be Done to Counter Islamist Gains in Gaza, June 4, 2007
END LIST CarolMooreDC (talk) 03:09, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed bibliographical references

message: Amazon lets you search the book but I couldn't figure out from their description which Aaron Miller reference contained the Ross description you included on Miller's alleged views.  You can change ref to Ross, Dennis, Missing Peace, 135. for each reference after the first one which still contain any relevant page number. CarolMooreDC (talk) 15:23, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The quote from Miller about 100% verses <100% is from P. 726 The Squicks (talk) 06:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

text: Ross states in his book The Missing Peace that he and other American negotiators pushed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barack to accept a divided Jerusalem during the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David is something that is mentioned many, many times in the book, and finding exact page numbers for each time would be pointless. The Squicks (talk) 06:12, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Ross book ref needs page numbers

message: Wise words from Dennis Ross:
"The one overriding lesson from the story of the peace process is that truth-telling is a necessity."
(The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace)
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thread_title:  "Truth telling is a necessity" 

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