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| Staff: | Henry Siegman, Former Senior Fellow and Director for the U.S./Middle East Project, Council on Foreign Relations |
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January 2000 - March 2006
This ongoing roundtable series will focus on two main issues: war with Iraq and the American “Two-State” for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. A set of meetings will be held examining each issue.
War with Iraq: Implications for the Arab-Israeli peace process: the 1990-91 Gulf Crisis had a profound impact on the Arab-Israeli peace process and American peacemaking efforts. Today, as Israeli-Palestinian violence eludes measures to contain it, and the larger Arab-Israeli peace process is under greater stress, the United States is again preparing for war against Iraq. What are the likely consequences of a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq for Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy? Will a war again create new opportunities for peacemaking? Should the United States seek to impose its new “road-map” for Israeli-Palestinian peace following a successful war against Iraq? Can the United States take certain measures even today, in advance of a war with Iraq, to prepare for post-Iraq diplomacy in the Middle East? This series of two to threes meetings will address U.S. policy options. Each session will feature an American keynote speaker, and an Israeli and Palestinian responder.
This series of two to threes meetings will address U.S. policy options. Each session will feature an American keynote speaker, and an Israeli and Palestinian responder.
The U.S. “Road-map” for a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: four months after re-defining American objectives and priorities in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Bush 6/24/02 speech), the Bush administration has developed a detailed “road-map” for ending violence, re-starting negotiations, and establishing a viable Palestinian state. The United States is currently discussing the plan with Israel, the Palestinians, and Arab countries in the region. This set of meetings will examine whether or not this “road-map” will avoid the mistakes of previous initiatives, which remain stillborn; the role that the Quartet will play in this plan; will the “road-map” be performance or time based; what other mechanisms will it rely on; what the kinds of incentives and sanctions, if any, should the United States employ.
Meetings
U.S./Middle East Project: The Accidental Empire - Israel and the Settlements
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| Speaker: | Gershom Gorenberg, Senior Editor and Columnist, Jerusalem Report |
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| Presider: | Henry Siegman, Senior Fellow and Director U.S./Middle East Project, Council on Foreign Relations |
12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
U.S./Middle East Project: "Land of the Settlers" with Chaim Yavin
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Speaker: | Chaim Yavin, Israel Broadcasting Authority |
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| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
U.S./Middle East Project: Roundtable with Daniel Levy
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| Speaker: | Daniel Levy, Geneva Initiative |
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| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
U.S./Middle East Project: After Gaza - A Conversation with General Shlomo Brom
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| Speaker: | General Shlomo Brom, USIP |
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| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
U.S./Middle East Project: The War on Terror - A View from Israel
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| Speakers: | Yuval Steinitz, Knesset |
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| Tomy Lapid, Knesset | |
| Arieh Eldad, Knesset | |
| Presider: | Henry Siegman, Senior Fellow and Director, U.S./Middle East Project |
12:30-2:00 PM Meeting
Liquid Assets: An Economic Approach for Water Management and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and Beyond
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| Presider: | John T. Swing, President Emeritus, Foreign Policy Association |
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| Speaker: | Franklin Fisher, Jane Berkowitz Carlton and Dennis William Carlton Professor of Microeconomics, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Syria and Lebanon: The Challenges to Israel
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speaker: | Moshe Maoz |
New Opportunities in the Post-Arafat Era: The Relevancy of the Geneva Accord
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Robert K. Lifton, Co-Chairman, U.S./Middle East Project |
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| Speakers: | Menachem Klein, Bar-Ilan University |
| Nazmi al Jubeh, Birzeit University |
The Implications of Israeli Unilateral Disengagement for the Palestinians
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speaker: | Khalil Shikaki |
Contact Gail Israelson at (212) 434-9661 or gisraelson@cfr.org
Can Hamas Be A Political Partner?
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speakers: | Alistair Crooke, Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict |
| Beverley Milton-Edwards |
Contact Gail Israelson at (212) 434-9661 or gisraelson@cfr.org
Public Opinion Attitudes among Palestinian Refugees: New Findings
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speaker: | Khalil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy & Survey Research |
Contact Gail Israelson at 212-434-9661 or gisraelson@cfr.org
Can the Road Map Work?
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| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speaker: | Akiva Eldar, Ha'aretz |
Contact Gail Israelson at 212-434-9661 or gisraelson@cfr.org
The U.S., Europe, and the Middle East
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| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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Contact Gail Israelson at 212-434-9661 or gisraelson@cfr.org
Israeli Foreign Policy after the War in Iraq
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| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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Contact Gail Israelson at 212-434-9661 or gisraelson@cfr.org
Religious Extremism in the Middle East
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| Presider: | Scott B. Lasenksy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Emmanuel Sivan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Contact Gail Israelson at 212-434-9661 or gisraelson@cfr.org
Israel's Military Strategy
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| Speaker: | General Giora Eiland, Israel Defence Forces |
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Contact: Scott Lasensky at 212-434-9744 or slasensky@cfr.org
Evaluating Secretary Powell's Mideast Mission
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speaker: | Khalil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research |
Contact: Scott Lasensky at 212-434-9744 or slasensky@cfr.org
Radical Islam and Terror
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speaker: | Emmanuel Sivan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
In Search of a Settlement to the Middle East Question
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| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speaker: | Ahmed Maher El Sayed, Foreign Minister of Egypt |
Is There a New Opening for a Middle East Peace Process?
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| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speakers: | Ron Pundak, The Peres Center for Peace |
| Khalil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research |
What Has Happened in Palestine Since the Al-Aqsa Intifada?
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speaker: | Yezid Sayigh, Centre for International Studies, University of Cambridge; co-author, Independent Task Force on Strengthening Palestinian Public Institutions |
Interpreting the Israeli Elections: A Palestinian Perspective
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Henry Siegman, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Khalil Shikaki, Palestinian Center for Policy Research |
Contact: Afaf Shawwa 212-434-9662 or ashawwa@cfr.org
Can the Peace Process Resume?
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Ezra K. Zilkha, Zilkha & Sons |
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| Speaker: | Avraham Burg, Speaker of Knesset |
U.S.-Israel Relations in the Sharon Era
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Henry Siegman, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Zalman Shoval, Former Ambassador of Israel to the U.S. |
Interpreting the Israeli Elections: An Israeli Perspective
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Henry Siegman |
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| Speaker: | Akiva Eldar, Columnist, Ha’aretz |
Briefing on Current Palestinian and Israeli Security Tactics: What it Means for the Future
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Speaker: | Gal Luft, Washington Institute for Near East Policy |
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The Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process: What Went Wrong? Why? Can It Be Fixed?
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Brent Scowcroft, President, The Forum for International Policy |
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| Speakers: | Henry Siegman, Senior Fellow and Director, U.S./Middle East Project, Council on Foreign Relations |
| Richard N. Haass, Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution |
What Israel Proposed At Camp David, And Does It Matter Now?
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Speaker: | Oded Eran, Chief of Israeli Negotiating Team in Palestinian-Israeli Final Status Talks |
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Israel's Continuing Efforts to Achieve a Final Status Agreement with the Palestinians
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Presider: | Serge Schmemann, Deputy Foreign Editor, New York Times |
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| Speaker: | Shlomo Ben Ami, Minister of Public Security; Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel |
This meeting will be on-the-record.
Meeting with Amre Moussa, Foreign Minister of Egypt
Related Project: U.S./Middle East Project Roundtable
| Speaker: | Amre Moussa |
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Contact: Afaf Shawwa, 212-434-9662, ashawwa@cfr.org
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