Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

The only accurate foreign poll was conducted by the BBC and ABC News, through the New America Foundation (NAF), about a week before the election. ... and more »

“This reminds me of the Project for the New American Century,” said Steven Clemons, director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. “Like PNAC, it will become a watering hole for those who want to see an ever-larger US military ...

New America Foundation Middle East Task Force director Daniel Levy emphasized the extent to which opening the crossings would create economic breathing space for Gazans and also act as a disincentive for provocations by Hamas.

Amjad Atallah, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation, offered what he called some “moral reflections.” Telling the Palestinian/Israeli story or describing the terrible human cost of this conflict shouldn't be ...

Daniel Levy, senior fellow and director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation, agreed with Hijab that Israel was stuck. ...

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… more

Many prominent Israelis view AIPAC as a negative and counterproductive influence and have joined JStreet’s advisory council. One of these is Daniel Levy, who was part of the Israeli delegation to the January 2001 Taba Summit. “The mainstream pro-Israel camp,” he states, “has decided so brazenly to throw its lot in with neoconservative ideologues within this administration and with the far right dispensationalist Christian Zionists, and this unholy triangle has pulled things so much to the right-wing direction that we… more

“It is neither moral, nor human, nor Jewish, I argue, to maintain this siege,” said Daniel Levy, senior fellow with the New America Foundation and the Century Foundation. Israel’s de-industrializing of Gaza through its unrelenting control of the borders has all but collapsed businesses in the Strip. “What we’ve done to Gaza’s economy in one year may take decades to recover,” Levy said. LINK