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One of the debaters, Daniel Levy of the New America Foundation (and a former advisor to Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert), appears in our latest podcast. ...
Daniel Levy, the co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, joins Martin Savidge to discuss developments out of the Middle ...
DANIEL LEVY: He fell as prime minister in the late 1990’s when he, in a not smart way, got on the wrong side of the Clinton administration. It’s a high stakes game. I think what Bibi is betting on is that the Obama administration won’t have the stomach to go forward with this. more
... efforts to advance peace negotiations, according to Amjad Atallah, the co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the liberal New America Foundation. ...
The following segment is part of a live debate between the New America Foundation's Daniel Levy and the American Enterprise Institute's David Frum. The debate was hosted by TheEconomist.com and moderated by Xan Smiley.
Please join the New American Foundation and our co-sponsor,
Americans for Peace Now, for a briefing by Michael Sfard, followed by an end of
day wine reception.
Mr. Sfard is Israel's pre-eminent legal expert on
settlements and the challenges posed by
the broader infrastructure of Israeli
occupation to the daily life of Palestinians, to the two-state solution, to
American policy and to Israel's democracy.
Daniel Levy, a senior fellow and the co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the importance of the settlement issue to the peace process.
Observers on the dovish side, such as former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy and Amjad Atallah of the New America Foundation, believe that maintaining a tough stance on the settlement issue is crucial for success of the process. ...
"However minor it may seem, however wrapped up in negatives, it is something to build on," wrote former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy, on the Prospects for Peace blog. "It is also clearly something that cannot be left to the parties themselves ...
That possibility — a potential military dimension to Iran's nuclear program -- greatly worries Israel, which has hinted that it might attack Iran to disable its nuclear capabilities. Daniel Levy, the co-director of the Middle East task force at the New ...
He has won back for the US the benefit of the doubt – of "time and space," in the phrase of Daniel Levy of the Washington-based New America Foundation. Nor is Obama resting on his accomplishment in Cairo of winning a standing ovation and afterwards ...
In a new public opinion poll before Iran's critical June 12 presidential election, by large margins, most Iranians said they support an American-Iranian rapprochement for bringing a new era of peace to the Middle East. Surveyed on a wide range of issues, Iranians overwhelmingly favor better relations with the United States and greater democracy for Iran.
Former Israeli negotiator and New America Foundation fellow Daniel Levy noted that, in addition to the breadth of subjects addressed, "this speech should perhaps be remembered as much for what was not said." Obama didn't praise the autocratic Egyptian ...
And Mr Obama dropped a hint that he understood the Arab world's concerns at Israel's nuclear weapons status. “I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not,” Mr Obama said. Daniel Levy, a former Israeli government ...
The problem in Israel, said former Israeli adviser Daniel Levy, is that the nation's voters are still largely driven by fear, whereas Obama's election was a direct rejection of the politics of fear. In the upcoming election, voters are facing a choice ...
New America Foundation Middle East Task Force director Daniel Levy emphasized the extent to which opening the crossings would create economic breathing space for Gazans and also act as a disincentive for provocations by Hamas.
DANIEL LEVY, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION:
"President Obama created expectations. He almost challenged Mr. Netanyahu to become the historic leader that President Obama said he could become. And I think it was an incredibly smart move."
Daniel Levy is a former Israeli peace negotiator who's now the director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation. He's played down the Israeli leader's offer to restart negotiations with the Palestinians.
