Volume 51, Number 15 · October 7, 2004
Israel and the Arafat Question
By Robert Malley
The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
by Dennis Ross
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 840 pp., $35.00
Few issues of US foreign policy have been as thoroughly identified with one man as was the 'Arab–Israeli peace process' with Dennis Ross. During the four years of the first Bush administration and, even more so, the eight of Clinton's presidency, Ross virtually was the process, allowed to work independently of bureaucratic institutions, personally devising US strategy for negotiations in the Middle East, and carrying it out. Ross attended every significant meeting; he has a prodigious memory and his note-taking was legendary. All of which makes his book important to read, his factual account difficult to dispute, and his conclusions all the more deserving of close scrutiny.
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