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DESCRIPTION:The perception of the U.S. in the Middle East is changing. U.S.
  allies and adversaries took worrisome lessons from the Iran nuclear negot
 iations\, the Afghanistan withdrawal\, and responses to Houthi terrorist a
 ttacks on Gulf states. Join Ambassador Dennis Ross for a discussion on how
  the Biden administration can move forward with a Middle East policy that 
 reassures America’s Gulf and Israeli partners and persuades Iran that nucl
 ear advances and regional adventurism have consequences.Ambassador Dennis 
 Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washing
 ton Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the institute in
  2011\, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and Na
 tional Security Council senior director for the Central Region\, and a yea
 r as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.For more
  than twelve years\, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S.
  involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with th
 e parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat\, Ambassador Ross was
  U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bil
 l Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and P
 alestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement\; he also successfully bro
 kered the 1997 Hebron Accord\, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace tr
 eaty\, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together.
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SUMMARY:"The United States and the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunitie
 s" with Amb. Dennis Ross
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The perception of the U.S. in the Middle Ea
 st is changing. U.S. allies and adversaries took worrisome lessons from th
 e Iran nuclear negotiations\, the Afghanistan withdrawal\, and responses t
 o Houthi terrorist attacks on Gulf states. Join Ambassador Dennis Ross for
  a discussion on how the Biden administration can move forward with a Midd
 le East policy that reassures America’s Gulf and Israeli partners and pers
 uades Iran that nuclear advances and regional adventurism have consequence
 s.<br></p><p>Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Dist
 inguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior t
 o returning to the institute in 2011\, he served two years as special assi
 stant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for
  the Central Region\, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State 
 Hillary Rodham Clinton.</p><p>For more than twelve years\, Ambassador Ross
  played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peac
 e process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly 
 skilled diplomat\, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process
  in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was in
 strumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interi
 m Agreement\; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord\, facil
 itated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty\, and intensively worked to bri
 ng Israel and Syria together.</p>
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