Daniel Levy briefing statement to UN Security Council February 26th 2025

Thank you to the Council and Chinese Presidency. Thank you, Ambassador Fu, and good luck to Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Sigrid Kaag, in your new-ish position. I would like to offer some thoughts on the immediate challenges and the broader scaffolding possibly required for a better future. Israelis deserve security. Palestinians deserve security. Zero-sum outcomes can never deliver that. One inescapable anchor of this reality must be an acknowledgement of the power asymmetry between an occupying, colonizing state and an occupied, colonized, stateless people. ...

The US diplomatic strategy on Israel and Gaza is not working Daniel Levy | The Guardian | August 27th 2024

The Biden administration remains in an intense phase of Middle East diplomatic activity working to avoid a regional war while optimistically spinning the prospects for a Gaza breakthrough deal. Following the latest round of provocative Israeli extrajudicial killings in Tehran and Beirut and the intensified exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah over the weekend, the region appeared to lurch further in the direction of all-out war. Preventing that is a worthy cause in itself.