that an envoy would put out a book co written with a WINEP weasel - WINEP is a Likud front of the AEI/JINSA/CSP/MEMRI concourse. It's AIPAC masquerading as Brookings, essentially.
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Hongpong.com

He's too close to Israel... (to put it politely). A more honest way to say it is; he serves more than one master and the USA (who's picking up his living tab) ain't #1 on the list.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/audio/2009/06/02/AU2009060202219.html?sid=ST2009060903696

Getting rid of him is necessary. Enough sabotage by these folks.

AFP
Published: Thursday June 25, 2009

The White House Thursday named veteran Middle East envoy Dennis Ross to a key job overseeing policy in a vast region encompassing the Middle East, the Gulf, Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Asia.

Ross's move from a low profile job in the State Department to the White House had been the subject of intense speculation in Washington's rumor-heavy foreign policy community.

The former Clinton administration pointman on Israeli-Palestinian talks will serve as special assistant to the president to oversee a region encompassing the Middle East, the Gulf, Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Asia.

The White House said he would work with senior officials on some of the most testing US foreign policy challenges, including Iran and Iraq, but denied his new role would conflict with existing US special envoys.

"What the president has done is simply add to a very strong national security team with Dennis ... given the list of countries that they'll be plenty busy," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

"I don't think that anybody should, though, believe that this will conflict or supersede the important work that special envoys are doing on the ground in many of these places."

The scope of his Ross's new responsibilities may come as a surprise, as various leaks quoting unnamed sources in the US press suggested a much narrower portfolio.

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