The Time is Now: Strategies for Peace in the Middle East
The Time is Now: Strategies for Peace in the Middle East
April 15, 2010, from 10:30 AM to 12:00 AM
Timezone: US/Pacific
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Join us for a call with Daniel Levy to discuss the shifting currents of U.S./ Israel relations
and prevailing opinions and approaches to Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).
The Time is Now:
Strategies for Real Movement towards Peaceful Solutions
in the Middle East
sponsored by the Mideast Peace Action Circle
Thursday, April 15
10:30 am Pacific / 11:30 am Mountain / 12:30 pm Central / 1:30 pm Eastern
(this call is scheduled for 1 ½ hours)
Tensions are running high between the U.S. and Israel, is the Obama administration’s stand against expanded settlements a step in the right direction? Are Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) valuable tools for achieving a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians? Or does the call for BDS just alienate the majority of Israelis and American Jews, moving them farther to the right and making a peaceful solution that much harder to achieve? Join us for this important conversation with Daniel Levy, Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation and consultant to J Street.
SPEAKER BIO
Daniel Levy is a Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation and a Senior Fellow and Director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at The Century Foundation. During the Barak Government, he worked in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office as special adviser and head of Jerusalem Affairs, following which Mr. Levy worked as senior policy adviser to then Israeli Minister of Justice, Yossi Beilin. In this capacity he was responsible for coordinating policy on various issues including peace negotiations, civil and human rights, and the Palestinian minority in Israel. Mr. Levy was a member of the official Israeli delegation to the Taba negotiations with the Palestinians in January 2001, and previously served on the Israeli negotiating team to the "Oslo B" Agreement from May to September 1995, under Prime Minister Rabin. He also served as the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative, a joint Israeli-Palestinian effort that suggests a detailed model for a peace agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From 2003 to 2004, he worked as an analyst for the International Crisis Group Middle East Program.
Mr. Levy received a Bachelors and Masters with Honors from King's College, Cambridge; he was awarded prizes in Social and Political Science. He left the UK for Israel in 1991 when elected Chair of the World Union of Jewish Students in Jerusalem, a position he served from 1991 to 1994, after which he was Projects Director for the Economic Co-operation Foundation, a policy planning think-tank in Tel Aviv. He has published extensively in a broad range of publications including The International Herald Tribune, Ha'aretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Boston Globe, United Press International, The American Prospect, The Washington Monthly, and more.
Mr. Levy was a founder of the Israel-Palestinian Peace Coalition and is on the Advisory Board of the recently established J Street organization and of the global campaigning group, Avaaz. His blog is www.prospectsforpeace.com and he posts regularly at TPM Café, the Huffington Post, and the Guardian Unlimited.
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