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“If you are a recognized state and you are occupied, you have a right to fight,” says Amjad Atallah, director of the Middle East task force at the New America Foundation in Washington. Still, many regional analysts, including Mr. Atallah, ...

A Middle East composed of democratically elected governments will dramatically alter the behavior of the Israeli government and change the terms of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, said Middle East experts Daniel Levy and Amjad Atallah in a J Street U Harvard-sponsored talk yesterday in Sever Hall. ...

Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy and former advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team Amjad Atallah will speak at Brandeis University, at the Usdan International Lounge ...

Across the Middle East, and most dramatically in Egypt, Arab publics are embracing the most fundamental of American values freedom and democracy. Yet America is being viewed with suspicion not so much as an inspiration for, or ally of, freedoms march.

It does not have to be this way, but first America will have to abandon its defensive crouch and clearly embrace this change as an historic opportunity.

Amjad Atallah, Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation discusses the violent protests in the streets of Egypt. ...

Al Jazeera English (AJE) broke a story on Sunday that may have the same emotive impact among Palestinians that the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi had in Tunisia (also heavily reported by AJE). That story came in the form of over 1,600 documents apparently from the Palestinian negotiating support unit that detail meeting after meeting of Israeli, Palestinian, and U.S.

The efforts to resume peace talks on ending the Israeli-Arab conflict are in full swing. The United States is aggressively courting the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition, trying to embarrass them with sufficient riches that would convince even the most recalcitrant Israeli politician to reconsider Israel’s settlement policy (for ninety days at least). U.S.

"If the Palestinians are forced to backtrack on that commitment, it leaves them with almost no legitimacy," said Amjad Atallah, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation and a former adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team. ...

Amjad Atallah, a former a legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiators, said: "There is nothing that comes after direct talks, no options left."

New America Foundation Middle East Task Force co-director Amjad Atallah says the talks will be viewed as a referendum on the ability of the United States to ...

Amjad Atallah, co-director of the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force, said he viewed Mr. Obama's tanking favorables as a function of frustration among Arabs over a lack of progress on the Palestinian question. ...

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Amjad Atallah, director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, discusses the fall out from Irael's raid on the flotilla on WTOP.