Daniel Levy is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at The Century Foundation and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation. He was interviewed this afternoon by James Zogby ...
Daniel Levy, who has been an advisor to the Israeli government and is now director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, joins Martin Savdige to discuss how the coalition was formed, what concessions were made to Ehud Barak and ...
"The interesting twist in this is that Lieberman sees himself as one of the country's future leaders," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator and now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. "He wants to show he can handle Israel's ...
Daniel Levy and Amjad Atallah had some interesting observations on the Israeli-Palestinian issue this morning at the New America Foundation's fabulous new downtown offices, during a conversation hosted by Steve Clemons. ...
... a Netanyahu-Lieberman lineup might offer some indirect benefits to the Obama administration, several pro-Israel activists said this week. “It might give the administration something to push against,” said Daniel Levy, director of the Prospects for ...
Washington, DC -- On March 5th, the New America Foundation hosted an event featuring Congressmen Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Brian Baird (D-WA), who called for the immediate opening of the crossings into Gaza.Showcasing a video of conversations they had with Gazan civilians, the lawmakers emphasized opening the crossings was necessary for both security purposes (Gazan and Israeli) and desperate humanitarian conditions that need to be addressed forthwith.
... Daniel Levy, former adviser in the office of Israeli in the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, shows clearly where the wrong choices were made: withdrawing from Gaza without co-ordinating the "what next" with the Palestinians; hermetically sealing off Hamas and besieging Gaza after the 2006 elections instead of testing Hamas's capacity to govern responsibly; instead of building on the ceasefire, Israel was the first to break it on 4 November. In short, there were other alternatives....
On March 5th, the New America Foundation hosted an event featuring Congressmen Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Brian Baird (D-WA), who discussed their recent trip to Gaza.
A sense of the absurd hovers over the current negotiations
to form a new governing coalition in Israel. After previously serving in
governments together, Yisrael Beiteinu and Shas are belatedly discovering that
they might just be incompatible. Having secured a clear mandate for a
government composed of right, ultra-right and religious-right partners,
Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be distinctly unenthusiastic about such a
prospect. While Tzipi Livni's principal stance seems principled rather than
absurd, it too contains an element of the unreal.
Clinton will also see defence minister Ehud Barak of the Labour Party. "Given the situation in local politics on the ground, she has to be in a listening mode," said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington. Continued...
