Obama: Endorse the Arab Peace Initiative Now
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Israel Policy Forum
by M.J. Rosenberg - (Opinion) April 7, 2009 - 12:00am

President Obama returns from his first overseas trip even more popular (i.e., powerful) than when he left. It is not only that his predecessor set the bar so low. Barack Obama (and First Lady Michelle Obama) were the most impressive figures to represent the United States abroad in at least a good half century.

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ATFP President Ziad Asali Speaks at Annual Conference on World Affairs
Press Release - Contact Information: Hussein Ibish - April 7, 2009 - 12:00am

Ziad Asali, President of the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP), spoke at several panels at the Sixty-first Annual Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder, held from April 6 –10.


Mapping the possible Netanyahu-Obama fault lines
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
by Ron Kampeas - (Analysis) April 7, 2009 - 12:00am

There are no fissures yet between the young Obama and Netanyahu administrations, but political geologists are mapping the fault lines. So far, two major potentials for quakes have emerged, both having to do with timing: One concerns the pace of negotiating Palestinian statehood; the other has to do with projections about when Iran's alleged nuclear program becomes irrevocably dangerous.

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'Making Sense of the Arab-Israeli Nightmare'
Media Mention of Ghaith al-Omari In Washington Report On Middle East Affairs - September 1, 2008 - 12:00am

IN A JUNE 27 panel entitled “Making Sense of the Arab-Israel Nightmare” held at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, speakers discussed the lessons to be learned from past administrations and prospects for the Bush administration in its final months, as well as prospects for the next administration. Ghaith al-Omari, a former policy adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Daniel Levy, former senior policy adviser in the Israeli prime minister’s office, and Aaron Miller, author of The Much Too Promised Land, addressed the Arab-Israeli conflict largely as an inherited problem.

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Camp David Redux: A Look Back At Lessons Learned

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The resumption of peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in Washington this week, reminded us of the last time the parties aimed at settling their differences with an American president as mediator.

Ten summers ago, there were two weeks of talks at Camp David. President Bill Clinton hoped to settle the conflict once and for all.


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ATFP Advocacy Director Joins APN Policy Director at Hill Briefing

On Monday September 27, ATFP Advocacy Director Ghaith Al-Omari joined Lara
Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations at Americans for Peace Now, in
a briefing for congressional staffers entitled "The Day After the Settlement Moratorium:
Can the Peace Process outlive the Freeze?" The briefing was organized by 3D Security
and held at the Rayburn House Office Building.

Mr. Al-Omari explained the political and concrete challenges created by settlements in
the face of reaching an agreed two-state solution. He expressed the opinion that the issue


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Hussein Ibish Appears on VOA's "On The Line" to Discuss Peace Talks

VOA's "On the Line" had Hussein Ibish, senior fellow at ATFP, to discusses what can be done differently during this peace process to get beyond the past stalemates and achieve desirable results. 


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ATFP Advocacy Director joins panel on direct negotiations at WINEP

The Peace Talks Resume: Prospects for Success
Featuring Robert Danin, Ghaith al-Omari, Abdel Monem Said Aly, and David Makovsky
September 1, 2010
 


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Remarks by ATFP Pres. Asali at Israeli Finance Minister Lapid Speech

The following remarks were made by ATFP Pres. Ziad J. Asali at aspeech given by Israeli Finance Minister Lapid at a WashingtonInstitute event on October 10 hosted by Robert Satloff:


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Remarks by Secretary of State Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, And Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
And Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

September 2, 2010
Benjamin Franklin Room
Washington, D.C.


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