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Martin Indyk, vice president and director of foreign policy at Brookings and a member of Bill Clinton's peace team, is author of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East.

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How to Win Israel

Listen Up

Israelis think Obama doesn’t like them very much. He can fix that. By Martin Indyk.

Martin Indyk | Published Mar 20, 2013

Obama—Listen Up!

The top-10 picks from the Brookings’s ‘Presidential Briefing Book.’

Martin Indyk | Published Jan 17, 2013

Obama’s Belated Syria Hard Line

Obama finally demands the ouster of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad—and it will help bring regime change, says Martin Indyk.

Martin Indyk | Published Aug 18, 2011

Learn From Our Mistakes, Mr. President

Martin Indyk, former American ambassador to Israel, offers the president sage advice—from a peace negotiator who tried (and failed)—as he opens Mideast peace talks today.

Martin Indyk | Published Sep 01, 2010

New Hope for Mideast Peace

With the flotilla crisis pushing Palestinians toward a deal and Israelis feeling alone in the world, former Ambassador Martin Indyk says the timing is right for real progress.

Martin Indyk | Published Jul 07, 2010

What Obama Should Say

As the president sits down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Martin Indyk, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, now director of foreign policy at Brookings, says Obama can turn the low expectations to his advantage.

Martin Indyk | Published Mar 23, 2010

Solving the Jerusalem Problem

All it took was a routine zoning decision to remind us just how crucial Jerusalem is to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process—and how fragile the questions of who lives where remain. Martin Indyk, former U.S. ambassador to Israel, on the way forward.

Martin Indyk | Published Mar 18, 2010

Why Bibi Humiliated Biden

Netanyahu sensed a political advantage, and he's pressing it. Martin Indyk, former American ambassador to Israel, explains Netanyahu's remarkable decision to taunt his country's most important ally.

Martin Indyk | Published Mar 11, 2010

Did Obama Get Suckered?

Far from taking risks for peace, like freezing settlements, the Israeli prime minister just laid down new preconditions. Martin Indyk, former ambassador to Israel and director of the Saban Center at Brookings on what Obama didn't get from Netanyahu.

Martin Indyk | Published May 19, 2009