Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and former director of its Saban Center for Middle East Policy; Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs during the Clinton Administration and former US Ambassador to Israel and author of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East
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