Heaps of hype at the Israel-Emirati-Bahraini festivities on the White House lawn—but no hope for peace, Palestinians, or the Middle East
Daniel Levy
Daniel Levy is the president of the U.S./Middle East Project, based in New York and London, and is a former Israeli negotiator.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Don’t Call It a Peace Plan
Ten ways Trump has launched a relentless assault on the very idea of Israeli-Palestinian peace
Posted inAmerica and the World
Five Key Takeaways From Israel’s Indecisive Election Rerun
Netanyahu has cast a powerful shadow over Israeli politics for the better part of a generation. That hold has now been weakened.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Kushner’s Israel-Palestine Shindig: Easily Forgettable and Rather Important
It took the president’s son-in-law, envoy, and ambassador 874 days to put together a great big glossy nothing-burger.
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Obama Gets Real on Israel
President Obama gave the United States some credibility on the Middle East yesterday, but that doesn’t mean his speech was perfect.
Posted inFeatures
A Path to Peace
It’s time to take America’s Middle East policy off autopilot and change our approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Political Islam 101
Three books administration officials should read as they attempt to deal with the Middle East in all its messy nuance.
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Israel at 60
To understand the co-existence of modern, cosmopolitan Israel with the Israel of permanent violent occupation, it’s important to understand that Israel has locked itself into a box of fear. And that fear has become a danger in itself.
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A Middle East Report Card
With the clock running out on the Bush administration, can late efforts amount to actual progress in the Middle East? Is the Annapolis process doomed, or can Sec. Rice finally make some progress?
Posted inFeatures
The Next President and the Middle East
To keep the world’s tinder box from exploding even more violently, George W. Bush’s successor is going to have to pursue a radically different Middle Eastern policy. Some policy pointers: Get out of Iraq. Work with (some) Islamists. Create the Palestinian state. Thereby, undercut al-Qaeda.
