Last week’s border destruction granted a period of grace for Gaza, but it has also shown the holes in Israeli, Egyptian, United States, and Palestinian Authority policies.
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.
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Plan B on Israel-Palestine
Ignoring Hamas and Gaza isn’t going to work. Herein, a three-part plan to address the current crisis and relaunch a viable peace process.
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Betting It All on the Maliki Government
The fatal flaw in the “benchmarks” approach to Iraq, and what an effective alternative might look like.
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Ten Commandments for Mideast Peace
Three former peace negotiators for Israel, the U.S., and Palestine lay out a common plan that could provide the basis for an Israeli-Palestinian final settlement. All that’s required is some political courage and leadership.
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Prelude to Progress
Under Saudi auspices in the holy city of Mecca, overlooking the sacred Kaaba stone, Palestinian Fatah and Hamas leaderships finally reached a power-sharing deal last week. The deal came 13 months after the Hamas victory in Palestinian legislative elections, and the party’s subsequent inability to form a functioning government in the face of an international […]
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Study Some More
Barely two weeks old, the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group Report is viewed by many as having already suffered crib death. Those who shaped the initial disastrous policy in Iraq and the broader Middle East have waged a tenacious and effective counter-attack against the 79 Report recommendations. Somehow, we have now reached a place where the […]
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Is It Good for the Jews?
On May 23, the House of Representatives passed Resolution 4681, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act, by a vote of 361 to 37. Nothing remarkable about that. But the passage of H.R. 4681 had all the ingredients of the worrying way in which the Israel-Palestine conflict has played out in American politics and policy for the past […]
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Fork in the Road Map
When Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited Washington in early June, one might have expected him to be heralded as the poster boy for “freedom’s march” in the Middle East — democratically elected, a reformer, and a recognized man of peace. Yet after the meeting, Palestinian delegation members spoke to me in terms of only a […]
