ARUTZ SHEVA
Those old State Department Arabists just won’t retire
by Stephen Flattow
June 5,  2016

Old State Department Arabists never seem to retire. Even years after they have left government service, they strive to remain in the public eye, getting themselves onto op-ed pages and television talk shows, where they tell anybody will listen why Israel needs to make more concessions. This week’s examples: David Makovsky and Dennis Ross… [They] currently are enjoying the revolving door that helpfully shuttles members of their circle between the State Department, select Washington think tanks, and assorted visiting professorships. At the moment, they are comfortably situated at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) where they are now once again campaigning for–you guessed it–more Israeli concessions. READ MORE