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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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McCain Campaign: Sarah Palin Did Not Endorse Hamas

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Sep 29 2008, 5:38 PM ET Comment

Michael Goldfarb of the McCain campaign writes in to say that I libeled Sarah Palin in my previous post:
 
Governor Palin did no such thing, and your title is nothing short of slander. Having read your work for some time I doubt that you believe Hamas qualifies as "those who seek democracy." That you would put those words in Governor Palin's mouth is libel.

Umm, Michael, the title was a joke, designed to make the point that Sarah Palin knows so little about the Middle East that she accidentally "endorsed" Hamas. It's hard to tell, of course, because her answer made no sense. As to Goldfarb's second point, I actually believe that Hamas does "seek democracy," but for its own ends. Unlike al Qaeda, Hamas and other Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations do participate in the political process, in order to take control of their countries. Whether they would give up power after losing a free and fair election is another question. I could go on, but it's time to sign off for a bit. As they say in the Beka'a Valley, L'Shana Tovah Tikatevu.


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