Daniel Levy, who worked for the Israeli government and was involved in the various peace initiatives, said: "The issue, certainly at this stage is not one ...
Just the thought of another book about Middle East policy
under President Bill Clinton might make the most stout-hearted reader quake;
but he or she would be well advised to consider Innocent Abroad: An Intimate
Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East,
by Martin Indyk. Indyk, who was (twice) U.S.
ambassador to Israel, and now
directs the Saban Center of Middle East Policy at the Brookings
Institution, has managed to write a new, very readable chronicle of Mideast
policy during the Clinton
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, said the Mitchell announcement was intended to stress that he is speaking for Obama and to push back against ...
At this writing, the Gaza crisis continues, exacting a painful toll on the civilian population, hammering Israel’s image in ways unseen since Lebanon in the early 1980s, and relegating talk of peace to the funny pages. The working assumption is that there will be a ceasefire in which Hamas continues to be the governing address for Gaza--a political victory for the Islamic Resistance Movement (the literal translation of the acronym for Hamas).
Still, Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, was struck by language that he felt conveyed "genuine empathy for the Palestinian predicament and for ...
"It shows that given the enormity of the challenges [Clinton] faces she's not scared to get the highest caliber people," says Daniel Levy, of the New ...
... look very different today," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator with the New America Foundation here who praised Mitchell's appointment. ...
After exactly three weeks of Operation Cast Lead, an Israeli unilateral
ceasefire declaration came into effect on Saturday night. While that is a very
welcome development, particularly for the civilians of Gaza, it leaves open as many question as it
answers. The steps taken by a series of actors, including the combatants and
their neighbors and supporters, will determine whether or not this actually
leads to a de-escalation and end to hostilities to what has been to a
horrendously bloody start to 2009.
... social and political power in Gaza," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator who is now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. ...
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator now at the Century Foundation in Washington, was skeptical that the agreement would amount to much. ...
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, argues that by attacking Hamas in Gaza just days before the new administration takes over, Israeli leaders ...
Daniel Levy, the director of the Middle East task force at the New America Foundation, joins Martin Savidge to discuss the Egyptian plan for a cease-fire, ...
... among other things, he suggested that Israel has been directing US policy on the Middle East. "This is terrible for the United States," said Daniel Levy ...
Amjad Atallah, co-director of the Middle East Policy Initiative at the non-partisan New America Foundation, says the Israelis attacked during a time of transition ...
Talking about the crisis in the same terms Bush uses would drain the goodwill of Palestinians and the Arab intermediaries Obama needs, said Daniel Levy, ...
Daniel Levy, who was a special adviser to the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and is now the director of the Middle East Initiative at the New ...
Daniel Levy, an Israeli analyst with the New America Foundation here, said the flaw in the Israeli strategy is the belief that that people in Gaza will ...
... not learned that ceasefires are imperfect but that you have to try and build on them," said Daniel Levy, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. ...
As of Tuesday evening, Israel's air assault on the Gaza Strip, an area only twice the size of Washington DC, and the world's most densely populated territory, counted at least 380 dead Palestinians, including scores of children and over 800 wounded, four dead Israelis, and one dead Egyptian soldier. Demonstrations against Israel and the United States took place in Turkey, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Bahrain, Lebanon, the Israeli occupied West Bank, throughout Europe - and even in Israel itself. Demonstrators… more
Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator currently based at the New America Foundation and the Century Foundation here, noted that the current crisis serves ...
