On May 11th, 2009 ATFP Advocacy Director Ghaith Al-Omari took part in a panel at the Woodrow Wilson Center entitled "Breakthrough or Breakdown: The Obama Administration and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process". Mr. Al-Omari mapped the current Palestinian political scene, focusing on the schism between Hamas and Fatah, the efforts to form a new PA government, and internal Fatah dynamics. He also laid out steps necessary to move the peace process forward. In particular, he focused on the need to maintain Palestinian-Israeli negotiation, immediately halt all Israeli settlement activities, improve the economic and security situation in the West Bank, and ensure the provision of humanitarian needs in the Gaza Strip. The Middle East Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted thepanel discussion with Shai Feldman, Judith and Sidney Swartz Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, Ghaith al-Omari, Advocacy Director, American Task Force on Palestine and Former Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas, and Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center.