Please join the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for:

Israeli Politics and the Prospects for Peace

Date: Friday, September 27, 2019
Time: 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Location: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
1779 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Israel will shortly hold its second election in less than a year. The April elections reflected deep divisions and personal rivalries that prevented government formation, and these new elections might well produce the same. Both elections have highlighted the continued rightward shift in Israeli politics and public sentiment, with the latest round featuring efforts by Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to lay the groundwork for possible annexation of large parts of the West Bank.

What do the results of the September 17 elections mean for the prospects of someday returning to Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations? How likely is it that Israel will annex West Bank territory, and what would be the implications of such a move?

Please join the Carnegie Middle East Program and the Foundation for Middle East Peace for a discussion of these issues featuring Galia Golan and Aaron David Miller.

A light breakfast will be available at 8:30 a.m. The discussion will begin promptly at 9:00.

Please RSVP to Blair Scott (bscott@ceip.org) by no later than Wednesday, September 25.

Speakers:

Galia Golan is Darwin professor emerita of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she was chair of the Political Science Department.  A long-time member of the leadership of Meretz and a cofounder of Peace Now, Dr. Golan is the author of 10 books, including Israeli Peace-making since 1967: Factors Behind the Breakthroughs and Failures (2014) and, coedited with Gilead Sher, Spoiling and Coping with Spoilers: Arab-Israeli Negotiations (2019).

Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on American Diplomacy and U.S. foreign policy. A former American negotiator, Dr. Miller has written five books, including his most recent, The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President (2014), as well as The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (2008).