Alon Pinkas

Alon Pinkas
	Ambassador Alon Pinkas was Israel's consul general in New York, adviser to Shimon Peres and chief of staff to Ehud Barak and Shlomo Ben Ami. He is currently a fellow at the Israel Policy Forum (IPF).

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Kerry’s Shuttle Diplomacy Without a Map
	Monday, Apr 15, 2013
	John Kerry has launched his shuttle diplomacy, with previous benchmarks such as the Clinton Parameters of 2000 and the Olmert-Abbas understanding of 2008 all but forgotten or ignored, writes Alon Pinkas.

Obama’s March Madness in the Middle East
	Monday, Mar 18, 2013
	President Barack Obama will realize on his trip this week that Israeli and Palestinian leaders do not have an interest in a peace process, writes Alon Pinkas.

Obama’s Visit to Israel Is All About Iran
	Friday, Mar 8, 2013
	US President Barack Obama will have a broad regional agenda when he visits Israel, including the peace process, but the trip is really all about Iran, writes Alon Pinkas.

Hagel and Israel
	Sunday, Dec 23, 2012
	Former Israeli official Alon Pinkas writes that the attacks on Chuck Hagel as "anti-Israel" are unfounded and do not serve the US-Israel relationship.

Trouble Ahead For Two-State Solution
	Monday, Dec 3, 2012
	Alon Pinkas examines the implications of the Israeli response to the Palestinian UN bid and what Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu might do next to revive hopes for a two-state solution.

Netanyahu and Clausewitz
	Friday, Nov 23, 2012
	Alon Pinkas invokes Clausewitz to ask whether Israel had a strategy or clear objective in attacking Gaza, as the outcome — strengthening and legitimizing Hamas and weakening the Palestinian Authority — seems detrimental to Israel’s interests.

Netanyahu's Move to Right Leaves Opening for Olmert at Center
	Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012
	Netanyahu may lead the largest party following Likud's merger with Yisrael Beitenu, but not necessarily the most popular. Alon Pinkas writes that Ehud Olmert could lead a centrist bloc that poses a real challenge to the new alliance.

Candidates Swap Platitudes, Not Policies
	Tuesday, Oct 23, 2012
	On the merits of this debate, and focusing exclusively on the portions devoted to the Middle East, it is safe to conclude that Mitt Romney would make a good vice president in a Barack Obama administration, writes Alon Pinkas. In fact, when they did differ it was the dovish, Wilsonian Romney who criticized the realist, Kissingeresque Obama.

US-Israeli Relations in Crisis? No!
	Wednesday, Sep 5, 2012
	Through a simple process of empirically based elimination we can isolate "The Crisis." It goes by the name of Benjamin Netanyahu, Alon Pinkas writes for Al-Monitor. His toxic and definitely devoid-of-trust relationship with President Obama goes back to May 2009. But there's no crisis between the two countries and its other players.