Zev Chafets, Columnist

The Middle East's New Peacemaker: Israel

The U.S. and Russia need a middleman. Enter Bibi Netanyahu.

July 17, 2017 at 11:07 AM EDT

Corrected

July 21, 2017 at 5:53 AM EDT

Zev Chafets is a journalist and author of 14 books. He was a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the founding managing editor of the Jerusalem Report Magazine.

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