"It's about showing Russia is a player," says Daniel Levy, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation in Washington. With the crucial Washington meetings coming up, the international community "and in particular the ...
On
the eve of the trips to Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Egyptian President
Hosni Mubarak, the Obama administration will begin to articulate and
get into the weeds on a new Middle East peace policy. Next Monday, May
11th at 11:45am, the New America Foundation will preview these
visits--what might happen, what should happen, and what it all means.
The morning after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds his own formula for embracing the two-state solution - perhaps in Cairo next week or in Washington the week after - will we wake up to a new Middle East? I somehow doubt it. There may be internal political criticism (which Netanyahu can harness) and some may call his move courageous, but the focus will soon shift to settling into a diplomatic process in which the ultimate goal of two states is… more
... absence of a clear vision from opposite sides, to move the peace process forward creates an "opportunity" for the Obama administration according to Daniel Levy, a Senior Fellow and Co-Director, Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation. ...
With a weak and divided leadership
amongst the Palestinians, a new right wing government in Israel, and recurring political instability
throughout the broader Middle East, the
salience of different types of Islamist groups on regional and international
politics is not likely to be on the wane anytime soon. Policy wonks and
diplomats in Europe and the United States continue to debate how
to respond to the continued successes of such groups.
Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington DC, joins Martin Savidge to discuss Mitchell’s time in North Africa, his support for a two-state solution and his scheduled meeting with Palestinian leaders on Friday.
President Obama's special peace envoy, former Sen. George Mitchell, is just wrapping up his latest visit to the Middle East. It's his third trip since being appointed and this time in addition to Israel, the West Bank, and Egypt, included Saudi Arabia and North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria), with an emphasis on a comprehensive regional peace, building on the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002. (Mitchell has yet to visit Damascus or Beirut, something unlikely to take place until after… more
"The White House knew it was open to that interpretation," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator with the New America Foundation. It was, of course, Erdogan who also carried out a two-year mediation between Netanyahu’s predecessor, ...
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli official now at the New America Foundation think tank in Washington, said that Obama's reference to the US-hosted Annapolis conference was also a form of "push back" against the new Israeli government. ...
Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, who served on Israeli peace delegations in 1995 and 2001 and also as an adviser to Prime Minister Barak, said that Netanyahu “may have huge coalition problems, not least within his own Likud ...
