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.
The Israeli Elections
By Jeffrey Goldberg
Feb 10 2009, 2:39 AM ET
Well, it's not the best choice in Israeli history, is it? I don't have all that much to add right now, in part because I'm 7,416 miles away from Tel Aviv, in a very different sort of desert, with only limited access to the interwebs. I think it's clear that Lieberman is simply the German word for Le Pen, and that Livni is Hebrew for "ineffectual." I'm still assuming that Netanyahu squeaks this one out, and, God willing, forms a coalition with Kadima and Labor, and not our cut-rate Putin (although it would be uncharitable for me not to note that Lieberman doesn't have the messianic attachment to the West Bank that some of his fellow settlers in Nokdim have, which has to count for something.). As for Netanyahu, I've never felt the hostility to him that my fellows travelers on the Zionist left feel for him, in part because I remind myself constantly that it's the hard-ass right-wingers who will deliver peace. Barak couldn't do it, though he obviously is capable of delivering war.
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