April 16th, 2010

Hussein Ibish Debates As'ad Ghanem on the One-State Agenda at U. of Maryland Press Release - Contact Information: Hussein Ibish - April 16, 2010 - 12:00am ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish debated Prof. As'ad Ghanem of Haifa University on the two-state versus one-state agenda at the University of Maryland on April 14, 2010. Read more

April 15th

Secretary Clinton Reaffirms US support for two-state solution Press Release - Contact Information: Hussein Ibish - April 15, 2010 - 12:00am In remarks delivered at the Daniel S. Abraham Center for Middle East Peace, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly restated US support for “two tracks in the Middle East - negotiations between the parties aimed at reaching a two-state solution and also institution building that lays the necessary foundations for a future state.” She emphasized that "the only people who benefit from continued conflict are those who traffic in hate and violence, who exploit and inflame old enmities to advance their own goals at the expense of real progress for the region. Read more

ATFP Senior Fellow Lectures at George Washington University Press Release - Contact Information: Hussein Ibish - April 15, 2010 - 12:00am ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish lectured on internal Palestinian politics and the dynamics of Palestinian-Israeli peace at George Washington University on April 13, 2010. Ibish traced the development of the present Palestinian national consensus on pursuing a negotiated two state peace agreement with Israel from the origins of the revivified Palestinian national movement in the late 60s. He told the students that the Palestinian national movement was largely dormant after the obliteration of all Palestinian institutions following the 1948 war and the establishment of the state of Israel. Read more

April 12th

Hussein Ibish and Joel Kovel debate one-state agenda at University of Chicago Press Release - Contact Information: Hussein Ibish - April 12, 2010 - 12:00am On February 23, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted an event at the University of Chicago entitled "Which Way Forward for Palestinian Liberation?" in which Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism and frequent commentator on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and Hussein Ibish, political analyst and senior fellow at The American Task Force on Palestine, answered questions posed by Richard Rubin of Platypus. An audience question and answer session followed. Below is an edited transcript of the event. Read more

April 9th

ATFP Senior Fellow Chairs Panel at Major Iran Conference Press Release - Contact Information: Hussein Ibish - April 9, 2010 - 12:00am ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish moderated a panel at an international conference at Lake Forest College in Illinois March 27-28, 2010 entitled "The Future of Secularism and the Public Role of Religion in Iran." Ibish's panel discussed "Religion, Politics and State in Modern Iran." On the panel conference organizer Prof. Ahmad Sadri of Lake Forest College discussed "Islam in a Post-Islamist Iran: Critiquing the Alternatives," Prof. Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University spoke about "Din va Dowlat: Rethinking Worldliness," and Prof. Read more

April 7th

ATFP Senior Fellow Discusses Palestine and the Art of the Possible at Monmouth University Press Release - Contact Information: Hussein Ibish - April 7, 2010 - 12:00am A two-state negotiated agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is the only workable formula for peace, ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish told an audience of 50 at the ninth annual global understanding conference at Monmouth University. The address on the second day of the conference, April 6, 2010, touched on a number of themes centered around the idea of the art of the possible. Ibish explained in detail his view that alternatives to a two-state solution are all fanciful because one or more of the parties in question would simply not agree to them. Read more

March 31st

ATFP Senior Fellow Examines Obama and Bush Mideast Policies at Pace Press Release - Contact Information: Hussein Ibish - March 31, 2010 - 12:00am Pres. Obama's administration has reconceptualized the nature of strategic and political dynamics in the Middle East and the broader Islamic world, ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish told an audience of over 100 at Pace University on Thursday, March 25, 2010. He said that during the Bush administration and traditionally, the United States has viewed strategic relations in the Arab and Islamic worlds as a series of discrete problems and challenges to be dealt with on bilateral or trilateral bases. Read more

March 30th

The Background on Jerusalem in International Relations Press Release - March 30, 2010 - 12:00am Numerous recent developments have reconfirmed the centrality of Jerusalem to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read more

ATFP Senior Fellow Urges Audience to Support Palestinian State Building Press Release - Contact Information: Hussein Ibish - March 30, 2010 - 12:00am ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish joined Ori Nir of Americans for Peace Now in a panel discussion hosted by the South Mountain Peace Action of Maplewood and South Orange, NJ, on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. Ibish focused on the current confrontation between the Obama administration and the Israeli government over settlements and other issues. Read more

March 18th

Why Israel simultaneously both is and is not a "Jewish State" Press Release - Contact Information: Hussein Ibish - March 18, 2010 - 12:00am Talk delivered by ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, March 16, 2010 Read more 3 attachments