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Jeffrey Goldberg - Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. Author of the book Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror, Goldberg also writes the magazine's advice column.
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Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, Goldberg was a Middle East correspondent, and the Washington correspondent, for The New Yorker. Previously, he served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. He has also written for the Jewish Daily Forward, and was a columnist for The Jerusalem Post.

His book Prisoners was hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The Progressive, Washingtonian magazine, and Playboy. Goldberg rthe recipient of the 2003 National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism. He is also the winner of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist; the Overseas Press Club award for best human-rights reporting; and the Abraham Cahan Prize in Journalism. He is also the recipient of 2005's Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize.

In 2001, Goldberg was appointed the Syrkin Fellow in Letters of the Jerusalem Foundation, and in 2002 he became a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
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If Ariel Sharon Woke Up Today

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Jan 4 2010, 10:15 AM ET Comment

Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of Ariel Sharon's coma. People I know who've been in to see him say he looks more-or-less the same, and breathes without a respirator. His family and friends hope he wakes up, according to this report, but it does seem unlikely. But imagine if he did come back.  Would he understand that the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza was a terrible mistake? Not the withdrawal, of course, but its unilateral nature. Imagine that he came back and embraced the idea that there is a Palestinian partner with whom Israel can negotiate, that Abu Mazen and Salam Fayyad, the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, are not like Yasser Arafat, that Israel could do real business with these men. What a seismic effect this could have on Israeli politics and on the current prime minister. Okay, I'm a dreaming. But why not dream?

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