Peace Process

From Imagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue by David Makovsky. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

From Imagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue by David Makovsky. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

From Imagining the Border: Options for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Issue by David Makovsky. Washington Institute for Near East Policy

The recent announcement that the Obama administration has ended efforts to negotiate a ninety-day extension of Israel's moratorium on West Bank settlement construction is more opportunity than embarrassment. After twenty-two months of near-fruitless efforts to promote Israeli-Palestinian negotiations conditioned on a total cessation of Israeli settlement activity, the administration can

On November 23, 2010, David Makovsky, along with Robert Satloff and J. Scott Carpenter, addressed a special Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Mr. Makovsky is the Ziegler distinguished fellow at the Institute and director of its Project on the Middle East Peace Process. At the forum, he offered fresh

On November 17, 2010, Washington Institute executive director Robert Satloff offered Institute trustees immediate insight into the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary study tour to Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, and Jordan.

As a journalist, I covered Yitzhak Rabin for the better part of eight years, from 1987 to 1995. During that period, I interviewed him when he was defense minister and in the political opposition, and I covered him when he was prime minister of Israel, during the zenith of the

On October 26, 2010, Tal Becker and Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Michael Herzog addressed a special Policy Forum luncheon at The Washington Institute to discuss current Israeli strategic thinking at the negotiating table and on possible future battlefields. Mr. Becker is an Israel-based international associate with the Institute. Previously, he served

On October 6, 2010, Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat addressed a special Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. As leader of a uniquely high-profile city with complex municipal and political challenges that have international repercussions, Barkat laid out an optimistic vision of Jerusalem's future, including a detailed new municipal "master plan"