Published on July 21st, 2013 | by Mitchell Plitnick

Indyk to be US Rep. to Israel-Palestinian Peace Talks

by Mitchell Plitnick
Martin Indyk is about to be named the US representative for the resuscitated Israel-Palestinian talks, according to a report from Israel’s Channel 2. (Though it seems Channel 2′s Ehud Yaari was not first with the news. That was actually the inestimable Laura Rozen at al-Monitor)
This says a great deal about the US role in the “peace process” and, indeed, the conflict in general. Indyk was the key force in founding the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), which is, in essence, the think tank of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In fact, Indyk went from working for AIPAC to working for them as WINEP’s first Executive Director in 1985.