But also be an honest broker, if I respectfully disagree.
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"She is an honest broker, doesn't over promise," Traub said.
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You can be an honest broker and a dishonest husband.
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Because he's totally an honest broker in all of this... 32.
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You have to build a reputation as being the honest broker.
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Mueller, a former director of the FBI, is an honest broker.
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He's an honest broker, and he's willing to concede a point.
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That seems like what an honest broker does in that situation.
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On this issue, Israel will not be viewed as an honest broker.
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It is hard to see Mr. Bolton acting as an honest broker.
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For backers of Bernie Sanders, the DNC isn't viewed as an honest broker.
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"He seems to be the one honest broker in the whole thing," Rep.
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"It's clear DEA is not an honest broker in this situation," Armentano said.
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"She is an honest broker and a very credible witness," Mr. Herman said.
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Here too, the United States should resume its role as an honest broker.
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To be effective, the speaker must be an honest broker and deal-maker.
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That included his own: Scowcroft believed any honest broker would also make a recommendation.
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All Mr Trump has done is convince them he is not an honest broker.
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At the same time, Turkey is not a totally honest broker in this drama.
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"I want to be the honest broker of the situation," he said on Wednesday evening.
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Mr. Huigens, who positioned himself as an honest broker, has cultivated a following beyond hobbyists.
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The Trump administration has abandoned any pretense at being an honest broker in the conflict.
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He faces skepticism from both Pyongyang and Washington that he can be an honest broker.
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"They have been a completely honest broker," said Mr. Dorsey of the Arlington County Board.
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Manchin describes himself as an "honest broker," and he's got a record to back it up.
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Indonesia is not a claimant and has projected itself as an honest broker in the dispute.
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Without the appellate body to act as honest broker, disputes between the biggest members may escalate.
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The European diplomat said the US's long-standing role as an honest broker is also at stake.
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The honest-broker role, favoured by diplomatic realists, used to be a mainstay of Canada's international brand.
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Indonesia is not embroiled in the rival claims and has instead seen itself as an "honest broker".
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He said Trump's decision had created a backlash, frustrating Palestinians who felt there was no honest broker.
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Amy was not always an honest broker, and this book seems to be more of the same.
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"My father trusts me to be an honest broker," Trump told The Washington Post in a recent interview.
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Abbas claimed Trump is not an honest broker and called his peace plan "the slap of the century".
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Moscow has attempted to play the role of honest broker in the past by promoting inter-Korean diplomacy.
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Turkey had initially tried to position itself as an honest broker in the dispute among the Arab states.
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And they argue it marks the end of the US role as an "honest broker" in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
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And they argue it marks the end of the US's role as an "honest broker" in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
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Like Debbie Wasserman Schultz before her, Brazile has lost credibility as an honest broker at the Democratic National Committee.
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The time for the U.S. to act as a neutral convener — an "honest broker" — has come to an end.
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Abbas has said Washington could no longer be regarded as an honest broker in any peace talks with Israel.
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"The vice president views his role on this as an honest broker," a top aide to Pence said Friday.
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" Palestinian officials reacted to Trump defiantly Thursday, arguing that the US has abandoned its role as an "honest broker.
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The decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital made clear that the US could not be an honest broker.
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The Palestinians have accused his administration of losing its standing as an honest broker by repeatedly siding with Israel.
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"China can be a very important honest broker, trying to bring together some that are involved in conflict," he said.
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But Senator Rubio, what's wrong with the U.S. being an honest broker in a negotiation, as Mr. Trump is proposing?
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It has promised to be an "honest broker" while holding the bloc's rotating presidency for the rest of the year.
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Graham described Menendez as an honest broker in the Senate, working across political lines even though the two rarely agree.
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We have dignity, we have leadership, and they don't want to go because they believe America is not an honest broker.
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Palestinians break off ties with the White House, saying the United States can no longer be regarded as an honest broker.
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After the publication of the letters, however, Franklin could no longer present himself as an honest broker and respectable civil servant.
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" An engineer by training and a Catholic by conviction, Mr. Guterres, 67, of Portugal, has described himself as "an honest broker.
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Many of us wonder, will Clinton strive at all to make Washington "an honest broker" during negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians?
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But the bureau could serve, as it has many times before, as an honest broker to help ensure a credible investigation.
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Regional scholars fear the Trump administration has done too much to damage its role as an "honest broker" in the peace process.
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" Manchin added that he doesn't think Ratcliffe will be an "honest broker" or will be "speaking truth to power to the President.
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He also said the United States was not an honest broker, and that Lebanese officials should not be fooled by their mediation.
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Resources previously allocated to multiple government agencies for CI outreach functions should be shifted to support creation of this new honest broker.
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Clinton described the American role in the peace process as, if not neutral, than as an honest broker between the two sides.
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No other country has the ability to serve as an honest broker to both sides, a role that continues to this day.
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The best model of a national security adviser was Brent Scowcroft, a scrupulous pragmatist and honest broker under George H. W. Bush.
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"It's been a long time since the United States could actually be considered by either side as an honest broker," Williamson said.
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How can the BBB serve as an honest broker between businesses and consumers when it is fully funded by one of these parties?
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Playing down his image as a warmonger, sources claim that in his new role he sees himself as an honest broker between agencies.
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Am I guilty of taking financial advantage of a bad employee, or is the company responsible for failing to train an honest broker?
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Does the irrational conflict between the Jets and the Sharks have a contemporary stage including an honest broker that cynically favors one side?
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Unilaterally relocating the embassy to Jerusalem would be interpreted as tipping the scale for Israel, further eroding America's role as an honest broker.
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Well, some would argue, Trump put paid to any notion that the United States is an honest broker between Israel and the Palestinians.
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He is hardly an honest broker: the Kushner family runs a foundation that has donated tens of thousands of dollars to West Bank settlements.
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That in itself would be a major change, because for a long time the court was largely seen as an honest broker among Democrats.
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There has also been a growing anger recently among some reporters that Kelly has not been an honest broker in dealing with the press.
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President Moon is planning to visit Washington in May, and he can play the role of "honest broker" between Trump and Kim, he said.
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The city-state has historically "been an honest broker between East and West," Adelman said, adding that it has experience hosting high-level meetings.
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Netanyahu on Monday praised Trump but Palestinians have said the United States can no longer serve as an honest broker in any peace process.
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Although President Trump insists he wants an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, he has, unlike his predecessors, chosen to disqualify America as an honest broker.
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"Above all, you are the honest broker of information," Chris Whipple, the author of "The Gatekeepers," a history of White House chiefs, told me.
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But there are still deep divides between the two sides, and many no longer see the US as an honest broker in the conflict.
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Many Republicans and some Democrats came away impressed by Milley and defended him as an "honest broker" in the words of Virginia Democrat Sen.
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Cheung is respected and liked by many in the White House and has acquired the reputation of being humble as well as an honest broker.
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Biden said he's emerging from his life in public service gratified at his standing as an honest broker; a reputation he says crosses party lines.
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Because you cannot be an honest broker in a dispute between two sides in which one of the sides is constantly acting in bad faith.
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As you heard the Palestinian leader, they are not inclined to enter talks now they feel the United States is no longer an honest broker.
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In that post, Comey burnished his reputation as an honest broker willing to stand up to power -- even at the risk of his own job.
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"Chris has always tried to be an under-the-radar player who coordinates policy as an honest broker instead of setting policy," the official said.
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Abbas has called Trump's Jerusalem declaration a "slap in the face" and has rejected Washington as an honest broker in any future talks with Israel.
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As Long (and many on your National Security Council) understands, FEMA is the honest broker that can rally the vast resources of the federal government.
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It is not a surprise that Moscow is not an honest broker: it has so far only admitted to invading Ukraine once, rather than twice.
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The president is not an honest broker when it comes to the intelligence community, a reality that could make us more vulnerable to foreign threats.
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"She is a brilliant advocate, an honest broker, and an eminent scholar," said David Cole, the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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So, I can't see how the IMF thinks its role as that of an "honest broker," Euclid Tsakalotos said in an interview with weekly Realnews paper.
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Mr. Barr's handling of the Mueller report so far has prompted critics to accuse him of acting more like the president's lawyer than an honest broker.
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The "Bulgarian presidency acts as an honest broker," she wrote in an email, and works to balance the interests of European member states, citizens and business.
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For example, the Congressional Budget Office, the legislative branch's scorekeeper and — despite what you might have heard — an honest broker, projects annual growth of 298 percent.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, also in conversation with Zakaria, insisted there is "no substitute for the United States as honest broker" in the peace process.
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He drags in all the experts — from Proust to Hawking — and tries to be an honest broker about the answers to questions we can't really answer.
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As we all know, the Kim regime is not exactly an honest broker, and could be just using domestic challenges as an excuse to stall for time.
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Some argued that it would increase the chance for another round of violence, destroy the United States position as an honest broker, and create a humanitarian disaster.
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Earlier investors are just as desperate to own that equity, and no longer play any sort of honest broker role that they might have in the past.
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Since then, according to Stephen Hadley, George W. Bush's second-term national-security adviser, the "honest broker" has become the model for Republican and Democratic Administrations alike.
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Trump's announcement was widely seen as the U.S. siding with Israel and breaking with its former role as an honest broker in a fragile regional peace process.
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"The North Koreans are starting to see the EU as a U.S. puppet, but we stress that we are an honest broker," said a second EU diplomat.
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Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December outraged Palestinians, who said the United States could no longer serve as an honest broker in any peace process.
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Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas announced he does not see the U.S. as an honest broker and said the Palestinians will not meet with Pence during his visit.
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"The more chaotic and unstructured the world of online live video becomes, the more important the curator, analyst or honest broker of information can be," Mr. Heyward said.
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His efforts in a White House news conference reflect Trump's refusal to play the role of calming honest broker traditionally expected of a President during a national crisis.
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"As an honest broker, it can give both parties the political space necessary to reach a peaceful settlement on a question that has lingered throughout the last century."
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As for the Palestinians, they've made it clear, at least to officials in Ramallah, that they've largely given up on the US playing the role of honest broker.
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But if his past record is any guide, Flynn is unlikely to be the type of "honest broker" that has historically made for a successful national security adviser.
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For years, the US has tried to position itself as an honest broker between Israelis and Palestinians, and has opposed settlements as an obstacle to a two-state solution.
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ISTANBUL — As the Middle East has descended into bitter sectarian conflict in recent years, Turkey has tried to remain above the fray, posing as an honest broker and peacemaker.
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Being perceived by the public as an honest broker unwedded to party or ideology is an increasingly elusive but fervent wish of many of the justices—particularly the chief.
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McLarty suited Clinton's desire for an "honest broker" who would not impose his own views, but he lacked any Washington experience, and left midway through the administration's second year.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called it a "slap in the face" and said Washington could no longer be regarded as an honest broker in any peace talks with Israel.
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Diplomats say that China is trying to play the role of "honest broker" in the Middle East, as it lacks the historical baggage of the Americans or the Europeans.
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The move is likely to squander any remaining idea that the United States can be an honest broker in the stalled final status talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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Palestinian officials have said Trump's declaration on Jerusalem meant he could not serve as an honest broker in peace negotiations with Israel that Washington has been trying to revive.
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Trump's move was widely seen as the U.S. siding with Israel and breaking with its former role of an honest broker in a fragile peace process in the region.
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" But with the reporters, Macron was mostly clinical, saying about the aftermath of a U.S. withdrawal from Iran deal: "I want to be the honest broker of the situation.
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His model has been described as the "honest broker," meaning he presented the president with the views of U.S. agencies instead of trying to usurp them with his own.
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President Trump has offered to mediate, but his warm relations with the increasingly autocratic Mr. Modi — Mr. Trump attended the Houston fan fest — hardly make him an honest broker.
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It is at this very time that Washington is apparently seeking to extricate the United States from a primary role as an honest broker in the dialogues that seek resolutions.
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"He seems to be the one honest broker in the whole thing that has a long-standing relationship with not only the position but with the two countries," Perry said.
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The typical model for the job is that of an "honest broker," who gains the trust of the various agencies by making sure their views are fairly presented and heard.
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The Bush administration reflected this rightward tilt to some degree, but also took the idea of the US as an honest broker in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at least somewhat seriously.
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If his administration's inability to be an honest broker opens the way for other parties to become mediators, Palestine can engage in meaningful discussions on a just and final peace.
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When he visited North Korea, the former aide to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was armed only with the goodwill and international "honest broker" stamp of the United Nations.
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"I've never thought the U.S. should be an honest broker," said Mr. Diament, who represents the largest umbrella group of Orthodox Jews, who comprise about 10 percent of American Jews.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called it a "slap in the face" and said the United States can no longer be regarded as an honest broker in any peace talks with Israel.
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Flynn pushed his own points of view — selectively presenting information to Trump in ways favorable to his own positions — rather than serving as an honest broker as national security advisors should.
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Trump administration: Opening an embassy in Jerusalem — tacit validation that Israel controls the city's east and west alike — has undermined the administration's ability to be an effective, let alone honest, broker.
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Granville said that while Russia was in a good position to deal with all parties involved, it might not want the difficult role of peacemaker, or "honest broker," in peace talks.
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He also emerged as an honest broker -- willing to call out Republicans and Democrats -- in all of this, someone who can build a bridge between the two sides within the Senate.
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His most intriguing suggestion is that the Palestinians stop regarding the United States as an honest broker in negotiations with Israel, but recognize that Washington will always ultimately side with Israel.
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In the wake of the US decision late last year to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Palestinian officials have rejected the US' role as an honest broker in the peace process.
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But Palestinian leaders say the move means the U.S. can no longer be considered an honest broker in any negotiations, and that Washington's role in the process is now effectively over.
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He acknowledged that he expected Mr. Trump to opt out of the Iran nuclear deal, and his goal, Mr. Macron said, was to position himself as an "honest broker" for the aftermath.
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That meant the publisher — more than almost any another institution — required an honest broker, a journalist-merchant who could reliably represent both sides of the deal as it turned to digital publishing.
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Despite studious efforts by Brokenshire to be seen as an honest broker, some of the parties said a deal by the DUP last year to prop up May's government made this impossible.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas earlier claimed that Trump's recognition of Jerusalem, which both Israelis and Palestinians claim as their capital, discredited the US as an honest broker in the peace process.
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Few prominent national security figures are as ill-suited to the job of national security adviser as Bolton when you consider his views, his temperament and his ability be an honest broker.
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Nobody in the region regards the US as an honest broker on Palestinian issues anymore anyway, and most regional leaders don't care nearly as much about the Palestinian issue as they used to.
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Riedel called moving the embassy to Jerusalem a "self-inflicted wound" for Washington: "This would undermine whatever small degree to which the United States has been seen as an honest broker" Riedel said.
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Indonesia is not embroiled in rival claims with China over the South China Sea and has instead seen itself as an "honest broker" in disputes between China and the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.
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But it infuriated Palestinians, whose president, Mahmoud Abbas, called it a "slap in the face" and said Washington could no longer be regarded as an honest broker in any peace talks with Israel.
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Speaking at a conference for the 60th anniversary of the Paris Club of creditor nations, Coeure said that the IMF's preferred creditor status allowed it to be an "honest broker" in debt negotiations.
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Even among those who disagree with her, there has been a sense that Lagarde has been an honest broker, attempting to re-establish equal treatment for countries from regions outside the European continent.
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A week after the announcement, an emergency meeting in Istanbul of Muslim leaders declared that Trump's "null and void" decision marked America's disqualification as an honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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I think a majority of American Jews would agree, no matter how one feels about settlements, that the idea that the U.N. is an honest broker when it comes to Israel is laughable.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Bolton, President Donald Trump's latest choice for national security adviser, said on Thursday he saw his role as an "honest broker" by providing a full range of options to the president.
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"Google is consistently the first place that millions of women visit when they think they may need an abortion, because people trust Google to be an honest broker of accurate information," the letter stated.
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Indonesia is not embroiled in the rival claims with China over the South China Sea and has instead seen itself as an "honest broker" in disputes between China and the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei.
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Since the United States under Trump doesn't even pretend to be an honest broker, the President's follow-up appeal to both sides -- to continue to focus on achieving peace -- doesn't pass the smell test.
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The fear was that increasing the influence of pro-British unionists over the British government could create the perception that London was no longer an honest broker of the peace settlement reached in 1998.
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Bolton said in the Fox News interview that his past statements on various issues were behind him and he would be an honest broker ensuring the president sees all the options available to him.
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But my sources say that at least at the outset, Bolton plans to rein those in — aiming to be seen more as an honest broker for the war cabinet, and less as blatant advocate.
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The United States consistently refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, believing that a formal announcement could spark violence and would fatally undermine the US' position as an honest broker between Israelis and Palestinians.
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The administration's ability to position itself as an honest broker would be reinforced by developing a consistent approach to leadership transitions rather than continuing to support the ouster of certain oppressive leaders while embracing others.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron cast himself as the antithesis of Donald Trump at the United Nations on Tuesday, a position that could enable him to play the honest broker in international conflicts.
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Former Conservative Prime Minister John Major, who was instrumental in initiating the peace talks, said on Tuesday that the U.K. could no longer be an "honest broker" if it struck a deal with the DUP.
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"I see the idea of the court as an honest broker has been diminishing and what I would predict—given the list of people Trump will nominate—is that that will be exacerbated," said Kalhan.
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In addition to undermining the Green Line, such efforts also risk destroying the United States' credibility as an honest broker in seeking the two-state solution that both parties to the conflict claim to desire.
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Egypt has positioned itself as an honest broker in negotiations in the long-running conflict, and is a linchpin in efforts to choke off the smuggling of weapons to the terrorist group Hamas, Toperich added.
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"My reputation on the Hill is to be substantively expert in the areas that I work on and to be an honest broker and to maintain that relationship in a bipartisan, bicameral way," she said.
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Palestinian leaders have said Trump cannot be an honest broker after he broke with long-standing U.S. policy and recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 2017 and moved the American embassy to the city last May.
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The source added that McMaster's task -- being an honest broker of various national security options for the President -- is further complicated by fears on the National Security Council that Trump can be reckless with sensitive information.
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Trump tried to cast himself as an honest broker who was "right down the middle," but his advisers—Kushner, David Friedman, and Jason Greenblatt—couldn't be more aligned with Netanyahu if he had chosen them himself.
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Situated in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, with the director typically having a West Wing office, success is viewed as being an "honest broker" who gains trust across agencies by making sure all voices are heard.
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President Donald Trump's decision to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has torpedoed any chance of the United States acting as an honest broker with the Palestinians for the foreseeable future.
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Before Thursday's attack, Secretary of State John Kerry pushed for a peace deal in Yemen, arguing that the United States could be an honest broker because it was not directly involved in the Saudi-led bombing campaign.
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Despite many Muslim states rejecting the Trump administration as an honest broker of peace, the White House insists they are still pursing what Trump has dubbed "the ultimate deal," a final status agreement between Israelis and Palestinians.
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"He was an honest broker," Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers and former chairwoman of the Municipal Labor Committee, a coalition of unions representing New York civil servants, said in a phone interview.
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U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters he thought Lighthizer was an "honest broker" and had made stepsthat he called useful and positive, and U.S. labor leaders were positive about trying to get the agreement approved.
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Bush wanted Card to serve as an "honest broker" rather than as a "deputy president"; Card had served as John Sununu's deputy but seemed to see his former boss mostly as a model of how not to behave.
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"It's not just that it's provoked violence or that it's made the United States look like the biased broker instead of the honest broker," former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk said of the embassy move in 2018.
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One Beijing-based diplomat from a Muslim-majority country told Reuters that China was trying to play the role of "honest broker" in the Middle East, as it lacks the historical baggage of the Americans or the Europeans.
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The Palestinians say closing the office would be the equivalent to cutting diplomatic ties between the U.S. and the Palestinian Authority, and would be a proof the Trump administration can't be an honest broker in future peace talks.
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia will put aside its strong views on curbing immigration and act as an honest broker on the issue when it holds the European Union presidency later this year, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Wednesday.
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After Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Palestinian leaders said they no longer saw the US as an honest broker for peace, and they distanced themselves from the Trump administration and cancelled meetings with White House envoys.
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The Israeli-Palestinian peace process began with and was nurtured by American involvement, although Mr. Trump's moving the American Embassy to Jerusalem last year undermined a sense among Palestinians that the United States could serve as an honest broker.
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The dominant reflex since the British vote has been to emasculate the European Commission, the unloved "honest broker" at the centre of the EU system, sideline the European Parliament and hand more power back to national governments and lawmakers.
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The DUP and Sinn Fein were due to restart talks on Monday on the formation of a new assembly, but a DUP deal could raise questions about the British Conservative Northern Ireland Minister James Brokenshire as an honest broker.
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WALLACE: Chris Stirewalt, how big a deal is this to hear Trey Gowdy who&aposs been a pretty honest broker on all of this suddenly, really change his opinion about the Mueller investigation and President Trump&aposs potential legal liability?
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"He cannot expect to side entirely with Israel on the most sensitive and complex issues in the process, and yet expect the Palestinians to see the United States as an honest broker," said former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer.
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Brands like Apple, Disney and Nike "would not be using Alibaba as their gateway to the China market if they did not believe we were an honest broker with an ongoing, rock-solid commitment to protecting their intellectual property, " he said.
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The Palestinian delegation, which met with White House officials last week, said the U.S. would not be accepted by the Palestinian Authority as an honest broker or a mediator with Israel if Trump recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
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Speaking last week in Istanbul following an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made it clear that many Muslim countries no longer view the Americans as an honest broker in any peace process.
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"How should the E.U. council presidency meet the demand to build bridges and act as an honest broker if the foreign minister and the federal chancellor are so obviously on one side?" said Andreas Schieder, parliamentary leader of Austria's Socialist Party.
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The Palestinians, who claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future independent state, expressed defiance this weekend, accusing the Trump administration of forsaking the role its predecessors had long sought as an honest broker in the dispute with Israel.
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Jim Talent, a former Republican senator who worked with him on Mr Romney's campaign, says Mr O'Brien "absorbs enormous amounts of information quickly" and will be an "honest broker at ensuring options for the president"—the "opposite model" to Mr Bolton.
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Michael Doran, a former national security official in the George W. Bush White House, said an ideal national security adviser should act as an "honest broker" who is well informed and process oriented, and who gets along personally with the president.
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Her colleagues say she is well connected on both sides and is viewed as an honest broker (though in Israel, critics fault her for what they say was her role in Mr. Obama's campaign to pressure Mr. Netanyahu to freeze settlements).
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Others have suggested that because of its reliance on the D.U.P., the British government will no longer be able to act as an honest broker in trying to secure a power-sharing agreement among the political parties in Northern Ireland.
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So, Australia's an honest broker on this, consistent, and we've always maintained that the best support, on each of these issues, whether it's a trade tension, or whether it's a defence tension, or whatever it may be, comes back to a multilateral approach.
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Many worry that the EU's reputation as an honest broker in a host of future conflicts may not recover if the U.S. Congress reimposes sanctions on Iran and causes the deal - which had the strong backing of Trump's predecessor Barack Obama - to unravel.
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The bottom line: The U.S. must help China become a more honest broker while holding it responsible for its continued transgressions — keeping in mind that China's economy, global business interests and close ties with North Korea mean its power will only grow.
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Experts say McMaster is modeling his leadership after Brent Scowcroft, the national security adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush who acted as an "honest broker" of proposals offered by Cabinet and agency heads rather than pushing his own ideas.
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Many worry that the EU's reputation as an honest broker in a host of future conflicts may not recover if the U.S. Congress reimposes sanctions on Iran and causes the deal - which had the strong backing of Trump's predecessor Barack Obama - to unravel.
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Ivanka's smile was undoubtedly offered to calm concerns about him and, perhaps, to distract from the mayhem and death that any thoughtful person could have anticipated as the embassy opened and Trump abandoned America's claim to honest broker status in the Middle East.
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But Putin's attendance at her wedding – where Austria's two most powerful politicians, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Vice Chancellor Heinz Christian Strache were also present – has led to criticisms that Austria's government cannot play the role of honest broker between Moscow and the West.
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Speaking alongside European Union diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini -- who last week described Trump's announcement as a "dangerous" move that "discredited a bit the United States as an honest broker" in the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process -- Netanyahu praised the shift in US policy.
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In an interview on Thursday evening on Fox, Mr. Bolton said he recognized that his role would be to play the honest broker bringing different views to the president, and that it would be up to Mr. Trump to make the decisions.
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Palestinian officials have said Trump's declaration on Jerusalem, overturning decades of U.S. policy, meant he could not serve as an honest broker in peace negotiations that Washington has been trying to revive, and they condemned his remarks on a funding halt as blackmail.
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Mr. Reid and Mr. McConnell did not get along, so Mr. Alexander — who had been in Republican leadership but stepped away to focus more on legislation — served as an "honest broker" between the two, said Jim Manley, a former aide to Mr. Reid.
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At least one Clinton staffer named or referenced as one of "The Guys" by Chozick in the book responded negatively to its revelations, saying the reporter who followed Clinton during two presidential runs "was not always an honest broker" of the truth.
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Many Libyans actually want more American involvement: In our conversations over the years, it is clear that the United States still retains credibility in Libya as a relatively honest broker, especially when compared with the Europeans and Arabs pursuing competing and narrow interests.
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When Palestinians almost certainly reject the yet-to-be-unveiled Middle East plan because there is no path to statehood and they don't consider the administration an honest broker, the President can bask in the praise of evangelical voters who like his hardline approach.
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Such nonsense belies the relationship that the president had with Jason for two decades, when he watched his attorney leave early on Friday to honor God's day and saw in Jason a brilliant negotiator and honest broker who might just bring two opposing sides together.
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Reality check: For the summit to be a conducive forum for the U.S., Arab states, Israel and the EU to begin to work out their differences, it will require careful diplomacy, wide consultations with U.S. allies, and the perception that Washington can act as an honest broker.
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The planned visit is part of Macron's bid to present himself as an honest broker who can accommodate the interests and concerns of both Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims at a time the United States has explicitly sided with the Saudi-led Sunni camp against Shi'ite Iran.
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"How is Austria's presidency of the EU meant to live up to the government's own claims of building bridges [between the EU and Russia] and being an honest broker, when Austria's foreign minister and chancellor are so obviously on one side?" said the Social Democrats' Andreas Schieder.
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The popular unrest, international uproar and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' rejection of the US as an honest broker in the peace process are leaving some experts and Arab diplomats questioning whether the Trump administration underestimated the ramifications of its Jerusalem decision and how the White House can recover.
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Discrediting the United States as an honest broker in a peace process, the Palestinians appear to be once again focused on increasing membership in international organizations, a process they started -- and paused -- in recent years that made them members of the International Criminal Court, among other global bodies.
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Congressional lawmakers made clear last week that whoever Trump selects as his nominee for one of the most sensitive jobs in government must not only come with the necessary national security experience but also demonstrate the ability to be an honest broker between the intelligence community and policymakers.
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" Mr. Oldham did not respond to a request for comment, but he sent a letter to Ms. Killman this month confirming that a "misconduct in research" investigation had been started, at the faculty's request, adding that he wanted to ensure the university's reputation as an "honest broker of knowledge.
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"He can't simultaneously be an honest broker of this coalition government and write the CDU manifesto", added Carsten Schneider, a leading SPD MP. Both had a point: what if a crisis breaks (say, a major terror attack) and Mr Altmaier is busy taking soundings on the CDU's new health policy?
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He argued that Sanders has been able to win over many less liberal voters in his home state because he has been able to get them to see past his ideology and show them that he's an honest broker fighting for them, even if they didn't always agree with him.
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RELATED: Trump to Republican Jewish Coalition: 'I'm a negotiator like you' The real estate mogul has defended his comment by arguing that he did not want to tip the scales in a negotiating process over a two-state solution and held out that the U.S. could be an honest broker.
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Whether it is a renewed bloodletting in Ukraine, a Russian cyberattack on the United States or a hurricane hitting Haiti, the national security adviser is supposed to be a steady hand and honest broker who can provide measured and unbiased guidance to the president about how the United States should respond.
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The ferocious nature of the confirmation battle could also have an impact on the Court itself, as Kavanaugh's vehement and politicized defense of his own behavior raised questions about his temperament and whether he could genuinely be a honest broker and implementer of the law in the most sensitive cases.
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To the extent that the United States has presented itself as an honest broker in the conflict over the years, Mr. Obama and Mr. Kerry are viewed by many in Jerusalem as tilted to the Palestinian cause, despite the $38 billion they pledged to Israel's defense over the next 10 years.
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Michael D'Antonio: What Ivanka's smile can't hide May 14 Ivanka's smile was undoubtedly offered to calm concerns about him and, perhaps, to distract from the mayhem and death that any thoughtful person could have anticipated as the embassy opened and Trump abandoned America's claim to honest broker status in the Middle East.
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"While it would be good to clear the air on this entire issue so that the president can focus on governing, it presupposes that Mueller is an honest broker, and that he would not take nothing and make it into something, which would be my concern," said Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser.
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The national security adviser acts as an honest broker in disputes between such power centres as the Pentagon, State Department and CIA, as a trusted intermediary with foreign governments and as a filter, ensuring that only the most important decisions reach the president's desk, and that they arrive there accompanied by the highest-quality intelligence and analysis.
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Restructuring the program to omit white supremacists and other non-Islamist groups "would severely damage our credibility with foreign allies and partners as an honest broker in the fight against violent extremism, and prove divisive in communities across our country," Senators Cory Booker, Brian Schatz and 10 others wrote in a letter addressed to cabinet secretaries.
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In the best situation, TV news could become just such an honest broker: Instead of showing you only the news of the day and the most superficial hot-take debates surrounding it, TV networks could respond to the internet by pumping more resources into in-depth reporting, analysis and explanation, cultivating a wider range of perspectives.
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A senior Israeli official who is well acquainted with the details of the visit, and who requested anonymity in order to discuss classified issues, said that given Oman's image as an honest broker to all countries in the region there was a possibility that the now-public relationship with Mr. Netanyahu could open more doors for Israel.
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We are about to find out whether this sort of behavior is any more appropriate for a president's national security adviser, arguably the most powerful, sensitive and demanding job in the administration short of the president's — and one that requires an honest broker, willing to present the president with ideas and analyses he does not agree with.
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"A lot of people wonder whether the United States has ever been an honest broker in the Middle East, and given the positions of the Trump administration, it's probably even more vulnerable to those claims," said Richard W. Painter, who was the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush and is a professor at the University of Minnesota law school.
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He added: "The Law Department has been so politicized by its proximity to the mayor that it simply cannot be an honest broker in institutional disputes between either the mayor and the Council or the mayor and D.O.I." Mr. Torres called on Mr. Carter to stand down from investigating the complaints against Mr. Peters and proposed that Mr. Peters recuse himself and that an independent investigator be appointed.
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The next ambassador to Honduras should be a career diplomat who is deeply steeped in the history and culture of Latin America; who speaks excellent Spanish; who has long experience managing U.S. government assistance programs; who is familiar with the "push" factors that drive Central Americans to migrate to the United States, and the U.S. government programs designed to mitigate those factors; and most importantly, should be an honest broker, unencumbered by domestic U.S. politics, who can help sustain bipartisan support for our Central America policy.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital has likely erased any foreseeable potential for a two-state solution between the Israelis and Palestinians, and undermined the prospects of the United States continuing to be seen as an honest broker in the region.
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