Talk:Martin Indyk

message: Even an honest fan of Indyk and the policies he represents would still have to admit that during the 2009 DemocracyNow interview, the man embarrassed himself.  Watch it yourself if you have any doubt.  Indyk's first few words were how unprepared he was to debate Norman Finkelstein (even though his book attempted to do so).  Considering Indyk was former ambassador to Israel, an adult of apparently considerable intelligence, and that Democracy Now is a serious program, this encounter was therefore a rather embarrassing career move worthy of mention and belongs in "Working Life" to avoid NPOV.
Hence why I support the following addition to "Working Life":
"In an early 2009 television interview with Democracynow.org, Martin Indyk humiliated himself by being unprepared and unwilling to discuss current Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations with Norman Finkelstein (even though they were mentioned in his book). Indyk claimed that he had been "sandbagged" because he had only agreed to talk about his new book. Finkelstein then thoroughly refuted Indyk's position made on specific points in Indyk's new book."
Please explain modifications and please avoid editing whole items out of existence without explaining yourself.  Thanks! :)
--Behemoth101 (talk) 22:34, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I reorganized this page, created sections, brought sources, copyedited muddled English and re-wrote the non-encyclopedic lead. Mr. Behemoth has deleted all this on some warped grounds that only he understands. This article now follows the standard for biographical articles on Wikipedia. If anyone has additional sourced information they are welcome to include it. If not, please leave it alone.--Gilabrand (talk) 19:50, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martin Indyk humiliated himself.  It's unfortunate.  But it's a fact. 

message: I deleted the word "lobbyist" from the first sentence of the biography because as a matter of fact Indyk has never been a lobbyist.  He worked in the Research Department of AIPAC (the Israel lobby) for a total of 18 months, 27 years ago.  Since then Indyk has directed a Middle East think tank, held several senior positions in the U.S. government, and spent the last eight years at the Brookings Institution. Kalora (talk) 22:47, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indyk is not a "lobbyist" 

message: I've removed the following sentence from the opening paragraph: "He is arguably best known as one of the lead U.S. negotiators at the Camp David Accords."
There is no mention of Mr. Indyk's involvement in the 1978 Camp David Accords on his biography pages at The Brookings Institute or The Council on Foreign Relations. It is highly unlikely that at the age of 26 (and 16 years before he took up US citizenship) he was one of the lead US negotiators at that meeting, doubly so in light of the fact that he had only received his doctorate the year before from a university in Australia, the country of his youth.
Besides, the very subjective "arguably best known" would need to be backed up with a reference or citation, even if he had been involved.  80.42.156.59 (talk) 05:45, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You are perfectly correct and I applaud your sensitive approach to my revert. In my defense: your first contribution on this discussion page (above) appeared in the same minute as I reverted the article – when I looked, there was no discussion. Anyway, it's all good now. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 00:46, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Camp David Accords Involvement? 

message: I removed the paragraph dealing with speculation that Indyk might be appointed US representative to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. This indeed has been reported but it's just speculation at this point, and other RS material (http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-palestinians-agreed-to-talks-indyk-reports-premature/) contradicts it. Perhaps better to wait until he actually IS appointed (or is not, as the case may be). Drmikeh49 (talk) 06:37, 28 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  US representative to Israeli-Palestinian peace talks? 

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