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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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What The Times Doesn't Understand about Ahmadinejad

By Jeffrey Goldberg

Sep 23 2009, 9:13 PM ET Comment

This is from the early write-up of Moody's speech, by Sarah Wheaton, under the absurd headline, "A More Conciliatory Ahmadinejad at the U.N.":
Mr. Ahmadinejad called Israel's attack on Gaza in November "barbaric" and said the economic blockade of Palestinians amounts to "genocide." But he did not call for the complete destruction of the country, as he has in the past. Instead, he called for "a referendum and free elections in Palestine in order to prepare a conducive environment for all Palestinians, including Muslims, Christians and Jews, to live together in peace and harmony."
How unsophisticated can you be? A "referendum" for "all Palestinians," including "Jews," means one thing and one thing only in the minds of eliminationists like Ahmadinejad, and in actual fact: The destruction of the Jewish state of Israel. It's not even code, and only slightly euphemistic.


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