Daniel Levy

The nearly century-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinians lies at the root of all troubles in the Middle East, many observers believe. Some say the United States is too supportive of Israel and has lost the ability to be an honest peace broker in the conflict. Others contend the Bush administration is doing all it can by working with moderate Palestinians and is right to refuse talks with Hamas until it rejects terrorism...

Some Israelis agree the conflict… more

We are pleased to invite you to a discussion with David Kimche, who served for many years as Deputy Head of the Mossad and later became Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Relations. Mr. Kimche will be discussing the current situation in Israel and the region, the prospects for a peace move, a new round of conflict or something in-between. Kimche brings his wealth of experience and depth of analysis to an assessment of the options for a comprehensive… more

In a lunchtime forum jointly sponsored by The New America Foundation's American Strategy Program and The Century Foundation's Prospects for Peace Initiative, Robert Malley, Middle East and North Africa Program Director at the International Crisis Group, presented and discussed the report, The Arab-Israeli Conflict: To Reach a Lasting Peace.

This new International Crisis Group report looks at the lessons from the conflict this summer, the last six years of regression, and the United States' political absence from the process.… more

Amid signs that the U.S. remains unwilling to take stronger steps to get Israeli-Palestinian peace talks back on track, a growing number of prominent figures are calling for a new international mechanism to set the framework for a comprehensive settlement between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

Such a mechanism, according to an appeal published Wednesday by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) and signed by some 135 former world leaders, politicians and Nobel laureates, should be modeled on the 1992 Madrid… more

Alastair Crooke is considered the foremost international expert on Hamas. As EU Security Envoy under Javier Solana during the Second Intifada Crooke mediated with all the Palestinian political and armed factions, including ending the Bethlehem Church of the Nativity siege. Crooke worked for more than two decades in the broader Middle East region, including as a member of the Senator Mitchell Fact Finding Committee and a negotiator between Israeli security forces and Palestinian factions such as Hamas. … more

President Bush is likely to face in the not too distant future a “bleak binary choice” regarding Iran that juxtaposes two fundamental options that have profound geostrategic consequences. The first of these is to launch a military operation against Iran's perceived nuclear capacity, and the other is to acquiesce and adjust to Iran's eventual acquisition of nuclear weapons. These are the two framing options in the debate -- but concerned members of the foreign policy establishment are racing to construct… more

Daniel Levy is a Senior Research Fellow with the American Strategy Program and Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, and he is also a Senior Fellow and Director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at The Century Foundation. During the Barak Government, he worked in the Israeli Prime… more

Please join us for this important discussion on the prospects for peace in the Middle East. A more detailed event description will follow shortly.

Rejection of hubris has become the defining characteristic of the post-Lebanon war mood and debate in Israel. That is understandable. Israel's civilians in the north faced a daily dosage of 200 missiles, while the military met a surprisingly well-equipped and trained guerrilla force. The mood has been best captured by the Israeli military's outgoing commander for infantry and paratroops, Brigadier General Yossi Hyman, who publicly bemoaned that "we were guilty of the sin of arrogance."

Although the circumstances in the United… more

Please join us as Steve Clemons, Director of the New America Foundation’s American Strategy Program, moderates an examination of the important challenges we face in the Middle East with James Dobbins and Daniel Levy.

Dobbins, Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at Rand Coproration, published an op-ed in the August 13, 2006 edition of the International Herald Tribune titled "Moral Clarity in the Middle East." Levy… more