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Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator now with the New America Foundation in Washington, said one key question was what impression of Obama Netanyahu took away. "Did he see him as a rookie pushover . . . or as a serious guy who's determined ...
Daniel Levy, a senior fellow and co-director of the Middle East Task Force of the New America Foundation, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the Iran question, the possibility of resuming negotiations with the Palestinians and the US role going forward.
... and Jim Zogby, his brother, president of the Arab American Institute -- were a few blocks away at the New America Foundation to discuss the surprising results of an interactive poll about US attitudes toward the conflict in the Middle East. ...
Washington, DC -- President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu today, beginning a several week-long focus on Middle East diplomacy.
The Obama administration wants to reinforce with the hard line Likud party leader that a Palestinian state is the best option for peace in the region.
As President Obama sits down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, beginning an intense two week engagement with Middle East leaders, the new release of a Zogby Interactive survey helps clarify the political landscape here in the United States.
... that process forward and increasingly understands this will require tough love for both sides, certainly with the Israeli ally," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli negotiator now with the Washington liberal think tank, New America Foundation. ...
Daniel Levy, a former advisor to Israel's ex-prime minister Ehud Barak, now with the New America Foundation, said both sides wanted a success. "There might be some sense that they are not exactly on the same page, but the overwhelming message is going ...
Mr. Obama's predecessors, Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, came of age politically with the American-Israeli viewpoint of the Middle East conflict as their primary tutor, said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator. ...
What's more, it would represent a welcome break from the never-ending, futile bilateral talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority that constituted Bush's failed Annapolis process. But there is a danger. The US-based analyst Daniel Levy warns ...
But the US may want action, not words “Short of the two men coming out of the White House bearing physical scars on their faces, the meeting will be adjudged a success,” says Daniel Levy, a former adviser to Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime ...
“This administration has internalized Israel's critique that the peace process can't be a kind of salami, with Israel giving away bits and pieces and the Arabs states and the Palestinians doing all the taking,” he said. Daniel Levy, director of the ...
What's more, it would represent a welcome break from the never-ending, futile bilateral talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority that constituted Bush's failed Annapolis process. But there is a danger. The US-based analyst Daniel Levy warns ...
The panel featured Daniel Levy and Amjad Attallah of New America, Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland and Rob Malley of the International Crisis Group. Listening to the panel, talking to Levy and Malley afterwards, and reflecting on the way ...
"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
The new Israeli government has adopted a domestic and foreign policy almost entirely opposed to that of the United States, said Amjad Atallah, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation think tank. ...
Amjad Atallah, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, offered what he called some “moral reflections.” Telling the Palestinian/Israeli story or describing the terrible human cost of this conflict shouldn't be ...
... 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. ...
