The U.S. Policy Shift on 1967 Borders Explained
Media Mention of ATFP In ABC News - May 20, 2011 - 12:00am

In what was billed as a major address on recent developments in the Middle East, President Obama today backed pre-1967 borders as the basis for negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians on the contours of an eventual peace deal. How does this shift U.S. policy?

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Palestinians storm into Israel
Media Mention of Hussein Ibish In The Washington Times - May 16, 2011 - 12:00am

Thousands of Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Israeli security forces on three hostile borders Sunday in an unprecedented wave of protests marking an annual ritual against the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. Israeli soldiers opened fire, leaving at least 15 dead and many more injured, as rioting Palestinians poured across the borders with Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. Israeli officials said 13 troops were wounded and blamed Syria and Iran for orchestrating the clashes.

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George Mitchell resigns as U.S. Middle East envoy
Media Mention of Hussein Ibish In Yahoo News - May 16, 2011 - 12:00am

George Mitchell, Obama's special envoy for Middle East peace, will step down after a frustrating two and a half years seeking to jump-start the stalemated Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Both President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warmly thanked Mitchell, 77, the former Senate majority leader from Maine and North Ireland peace negotiator, for his service, in statements sent out by the White House Friday. Mitchell, in a brief resignation letter to the president, said he'd agreed to serve two years, and had now served longer than that.

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Ziad Asali Senate Foreign Relations Hearing on Middle East Peace-March 4, 2010
Video on April 17, 2011

Dr.Ziad Asali,along with Daniel Kurtzer, Robert Malley,and David Makovsky appear in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to make policy recommendations on how to bring Israeli and Palestinian leaders into peace negotiations. Security concerns are subsequently addressed, with an emphsis on developments on the ground.


Ghaith al Omari CAP Panel on Two State Solution-March 20, 2009
Video on April 17, 2011

Ghaith al Omari participates in an open discussion at the American Center for Progress. The focus is a peaceful two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though questions cover various related topics.


Hussein Ibish lecture at Tufts University-February 10, 2010
Video on April 17, 2011

ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish delivered a Fares Lecture Series address at Tufts University on February 10, 2010. The lecture, entitled "Israel, the Palestinians and the One-State Agenda," critiqued one-state rhetoric by some pro-Palestinian voices, mainly on US and UK college campuses, as well as other "fanciful ideas about how to end the conflict that are totally implausible because one or more of the parties would have to agree to them certainly will not."


Hussein Ibish vs. As'ad Ghanem on One-State Agenda at UMD-April 14, 2010
Video on April 17, 2011

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.


Hussein Ibish on BC panel "US Israeli Relations Past, Present, and Future"-February 22, 2010
Video on April 17, 2011

Aaron David Miller, public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Shai Feldman, professor of politics and director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University; and Hussein Ibish, senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, discuss the relationship between the US and Israel. Ali Banuazizi, professor of political science and director of the Islamic Civilization and Societies Program at Boston College, leads the panel.


Hussein Ibish QA Session Tufts University lecture-February 10, 2010
Video on April 17, 2011

ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish delivered a Fares Lecture Series address at Tufts University on February 10, 2010. The lecture, entitled "Israel, the Palestinians and the One-State Agenda," critiqued one-state rhetoric by some pro-Palestinian voices, mainly on US and UK college campuses, as well as other "fanciful ideas about how to end the conflict that are totally implausible because one or more of the parties would have to agree to them certainly will not."


Ziad Asali on Charlie Rose- Resignation of Andrew Card- March 28, 2006
Video on April 17, 2011

Ziad Asali on Charlie Rose show discussing resignation of Andrew Card and Israeli elections with Ken Walsh and David Makovsky.



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