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"The current policy has neither the respect of the Israelis, nor of the Palestinians," according to Amjad Atallah, an expert with the New America Foundation ...
Daniel Levy, a veteran Israeli peace negotiator now at the Century Foundation in Washington, summed up the administration's efforts in recent days as ...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped from the
frying pan into the fire this weekend, when she sparked a controversy regarding
U.S. policy toward Israeli settlements right after some tough days of public
and private diplomacy in Pakistan. But was the controversy as serious as it
seemed? And what does it means for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace
efforts? Here, a fact check on some settlement myths and misconceptions.
1. What is the
significance of Clinton's linguistic acrobatics?
One of J Street's founders, Daniel Levy, said he believed the presence of Jones and the retention of 148 members of Congress on the host committee show that ...
They predicted that J Street and the men who launched it -- Jeremy Ben-Ami, a former domestic policy adviser to President Bill Clinton, and Daniel Levy, ...
New America Foundation senior fellow
Daniel Levy tells us: "Wexler may be doing this to assist the Obama
team in strengthening support -- especially in the Jewish community --
for the administration's drive to achieve a two-state solution in the
next 24 months."... Original Article
"Wexler will be treated
by leaders in the region as the person who has Obama's ear," said Daniel Levy,
co-director of the New America Foundation's Middle East
task force. "He is close to Obama, is well accepted in the Jewish community and
knows everyone in Congress." ... Original Article
... Israeli government's actions," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator who heads the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation. ...
Ging, speaking Tuesday at a meeting in Washington, DC hosted by The New America Foundation, United Nations Association of the National Capital Area and ...
On October 13, John Ging, the director of operations in
Gaza for the
United Nations Relief and Works, had a public discussion with Amjad Atallah,
co-director of the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force. This year
UNRWA commemorates six decades of service to the Palestinian refugees, and Mr.
Ging spoke about the current and prospective challenges facing UNRWA and
Gaza as a whole.
President Obama's efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Arab states, including a Palestinian state, received a much appreciated, if surprising, boost with the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to the US president. It's fair to assume that the Nobel prize committee is hoping that the award will promote Obama's diplomatic efforts across a range of issues.
Daniel Levy, a former adviser to the Israeli government who is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, says the Israeli political system has some ...
Daniel Levy in Foreign Policy: "By holding Israel's feet to the fire over
settlements for a sustained period, America may actually have achieved
a great deal in strategically advancing the two-state goal. ... Original Article
"Netanyahu's preferred approach was to focus on interim issues and CBMs and to
avoid negotiating the core issues on which his positions are the most
unreasonable," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiations currently
based at the New America Foundation.
...
Former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy believes the Administration's pivot on the issue smartly boxed Netanyahu into a negotiating process the Israeli ...
Headlines are now being prepared following U.S. President Barack Obama's convening of a trilateral Israeli-Palestinian-American peace summit today in New York. Many will seek to belittle the president's efforts thus far. The summit was being dismissed as a photo-op before it even happened.
"They are blocking off his escape hatches," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator. "They’re saying, if you can’t do the interim, then we’ll do the final status." ... Original article
