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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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Ron Rosenbaum on Solutionism

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Sep 24 2009, 2:22 PM ET Comment

Which is America's false religion, at least when it comes to the Middle East:
Do you really think the Taliban is going to go away now? Do you really think a freeze on settlements is going to start us on the yellow brick road to peace in the Middle East? I congratulate you. I'm sure life is more tolerable for the solutionist. Ever read David Copperfield? Then you know about "Micawberism." "Something will turn up," Mr .Macawber liked to say. The solutionist's mantra. "Something will turn up -- dead," the anti solutionist counters.

I don't think there ever will be a "good" solution to the strife over Israel. Just more strife -- if we're lucky -- or strife ending with holocaust or apocalypse, if we're not.


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