Source Note #28: Interview with UO professor Jane Cramer
Assistant Professor Jane Cramer makes the case for tougher American support of Israel.
Topic:
Should the Obama administration continue to support Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Category: Citizen: Expert
What is it? An interview with Professor Jane Cramer
Publication Information: Interviewed March 9, 2009
Author: Interviewed by Alex Matthews
Location: Available for download here
Support:
Professor Jane Cramer
George Mitchell, Special Envoy to the Middle East
Audience and Agenda:
Jane Cramer has been a professor of political science at the University of Oregon since 2002. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in political science. She specializes in international relations and international security. The classes she has taught include United States intervention in conflict and weapons of mass destruction and nonproliferation.
Usefulness:
Professor Jane Cramer makes the case for American support of Israel, but from a tougher point of view. From her perspective, if there is to be peace between Israel and Palestine through a two-state solution, the United States will be the one with the power to coerce peace negotiations. While US support is important, it cannot be the coddling treatment that the Bush administration gave. President Obama must be tougher with Israel, even going so far as to threaten to pull funding in order to forge negotiations.
Works cited:
Professor Jane Cramer: Faculty Profile
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