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        <title><![CDATA[Dennis Ross - Counselor]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Dennis Ross is counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and served in senior national security positions for Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He is the author of "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Lead in a Multipolar World."
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            <title><![CDATA[Israel Has Its Best Chance for Peace in 25 Years]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton’s team came close to a deal in 2000 but the Palestinians walked away. The devastation of Iran’s proxies opens a wide but brief window. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-17/israel-has-its-best-chance-for-peace-in-25-years</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:00:14 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 07: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (L) talks to U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump is meeting with Netanyahu to discuss ongoing efforts to release Israeli hostages from Gaza and newly imposed U.S. tariffs. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[To Deter Iran, Give Israel a Big Bomb]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The best way to ensure Tehran doesn’t gain the capability to make a nuclear weapon is for the U.S. to empower its ally. ]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-23/u-s-should-give-israel-mountain-buster-bomb-to-deter-iran-s-nuclear-program</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2021 11:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>OVER THE INDIAN OCEAN - MARCH 27: A B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber proceeds to an undisclosed location after completing a mission over Iraq March 27, 2003. The Pentagon has announced its intention to almost double the military ground strength in the Gulf to about 200,000 troops over the next month. (Photo by Cherie A. Thurlby/U.S. Air Force/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Biden’s Iran Policy Can Have a Chance to Succeed]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Iran continues to suffer under the weight of economic sanctions. Getting relief shouldn’t come without concessions on a nuclear deal.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-12-26/biden-s-iran-policy-nuclear-compliance-keeping-u-s-leverage</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2020 13:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Students of Iran&apos;s Basij paramilitary force burn posters depicting US President Donald Trump (top) and President-elect Joe Biden, during a rally in front of the foreign ministry in Tehran, on November 28, 2020, to protest the killing of prominent nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh a day earlier near the capital. - Iran&apos;s President Hassan Rouhani accused arch-foe Israel of acting as a &quot;mercenary&quot; for the US and seeking to create chaos, blaming it for the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Iran, Trump and Netanyahu Finally Disagree]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Tehran has its own version of “maximum pressure,” and it’s leading the U.S. and Israel in different directions.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-09-05/iran-crisis-trump-and-netanyahu-aren-t-on-the-same-page</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:00:49 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>This picture taken on July 28, 2019 shows two giant Israeli Likud Party election banners hanging from a building showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shaking hands with US President Donald Trump, with a caption above reading in Hebrew &quot;Netanyahu, in another league&quot;, in the coastal Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Deal Trump and Khamenei Could Make]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Iran says it won’t negotiate with the U.S. under pressure. But it has done so in the past – and might again.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-05-29/a-deal-donald-trump-and-ayatollah-khamenei-could-make</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 13:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>TEHRAN, IRAN - FEBRUARY 8 : (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY MANDATORY CREDIT - &quot;IRAN&apos;S RELIGIOUS LEADER PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT&quot; - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Iran&apos;s religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a gathering with Iranian Air Force officers and the personnel in Tehran, Iran on February 8, 2019. (Photo by IRAN&apos;S RELIGIOUS LEADER PRESS OFFICE / HANDOUT/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Can’t Get a Divorce]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Despite Yemen, Khashoggi and U.S. energy independence, the relationship is critical for both sides.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-05-01/the-u-s-and-saudi-arabia-can-t-get-a-divorce</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 08:30:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>An unlikely president meets an unlikely monarch.</media:description>
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