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.
One Thought on the Jerusalem Crisis
By Jeffrey Goldberg
Mar 15 2010, 9:16 AM ET
I know, I know, I'm not blogging. But I'm just thinking here, not blogging. It struck me last night that the Jerusalem-obsessed apartment-builders who risk ruining Israel's relations with its main benefactor and protector have got the sequencing wrong. It's widely-assumed, for good reason, that neighborhoods like Ramat Shlomo -- that is to say, thickly-populated Jewish neighborhoods built over the green line -- would be included inside Israel's borders in a final status deal, in exchange for land currently under Israeli control. Once the permanent borders are demarcated, Israel will be able to build in these neighborhoods whatever it wants: Skyscrapers, ski slopes, marinas, horse stables, international airports, Wal-Marts (God forbid) and no one will have the right to complain. And, by the way, permanent borders will help save Israel from dissolution. Right now, Israel's impermanent borders suggest a general impermanence to the whole let's-rebuild-the-Jewish-state-after-two-thousand-years-of-exile project we've got going on over there.
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