U.S. / Middle East Project

Daniel Levy briefing statement to UN Security Council October 19^th 2021

Thank you to the Council and the Kenyan Presidency for giving me this opportunity to brief you today. Thank you Special Envoy Tor Wennesland. I would like to enter into the record of this meeting a report published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the U.S./Middle East Project, the latter of which I head, entitled “Breaking the Israel-Palestine Status Quo”, and to acknowledge my co-authors in that report, Zaha Hassan, Halla Keir and Marwan Muasher. In short, that report calls for a rights-based approach to Israel-Palestine, building o...

Beyond Business as Usual in Israel-Palestine Joint USMEP-ICG report | August 10^th 2021

The latest escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict brought important shifts in the status quo, underscoring the necessity of a political settlement. A peace based on equal respect for both peoples’ rights will take time, however. Steps to lower the temperature are urgent in the interim.