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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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Five Chicago Votes

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Jun 5 2008, 12:01 PM ET Comment

I'm back from Jordan (more on that later) and I opened up my e-mail to find this note:

Dear Mr. Goldberg,

We read your article about Obama and Hamas. Our question is: Do you feel Obama is a friend of Hamas. As a Jew, are you comfortable with his responses and feel he will be a friend to Israel?
Your answer will be responsible for 5 Chicago votes.


They never told me at Blog School that I would have such awesome responsibilities foisted upon me.

But, let me give it a stab here:

No, Obama is not a friend of Hamas. As a Jew, I'm comfortable with his responses. Yes, I feel he will be a friend to Israel.

Actually, and I'm going to blog about this later, after I recover from jet-lag, which usually takes me about eight or nine weeks, I think Obama's performance at AIPAC was designed specifically to placate those Jews who believe that any criticism at all of Israel is illegitimate. I wish that Obama's speech had about ten percent more nuance in it.

Also, and I know it's none of my business, but my new friends from Chicago should consider voting on a more expansive range of issues than simply Hamas.

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