Daniel Levy
- : Daniel Levy was an advisor in the Prime Minister's Office, a member of the official Israel negotiating team at the Oslo B and Taba talks, and the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative.
Counting West Bank Checkpoints--Making Gulliver Look Lilliputian
I have written before about the seemingly unstoppable proliferation of checkpoints and obstacles to movement in the West Bank, but I thought an update was in order. After all, Secretary Rice has just devoted another round of relatively fruitless Mid-East...more »
Posted on May 7, 2008 7:57 PM
5 Comments on the Syria-Israel-North Korea Revelations
Yesterday the House and Senate intelligence committees were briefed by US intelligence officials on the details of a September '07 Israeli strike on a Syrian facility that allegedly had nuclear capabilities. The press then received its own briefing. Lots of...more »
Posted on April 25, 2008 5:24 PM
Israel and Hamas Test the Waters?
Interesting noises have been coming recently from the leader of the Hamas political bureau, Khaled Mashal, and the Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak. Looking at what they both said in relatively quick succession, one might even be tempted to...more »
Posted on April 8, 2008 8:57 PM
Hamas and Incitement in the New York Times
Yesterday, Tuesday, the New York Times ran a long front page article about the Hamas use of incitement against Jews and Israel. The first thing to say about the piece is that it is almost certainly accurate and not something...more »
Posted on April 2, 2008 7:01 PM
Israel, Sri Lanka and the War on Terror
With guests like VP Cheney and Senator McCain in the last week it was easy to miss this one, but Sri Lanka's Prime Minister, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, has just been on a working visit to Israel. There he signed an agreement...more »
Posted on March 26, 2008 5:48 PM
Hillary’s chosen person—and the choices of the chosen people
M.J. Rosenberg pointed out in his latest post the remarkable (in the dumb way) nature of a statement made by Hillary Clinton’s chosen surrogate Ann Lewis, at a conference of the United Jewish Communities young leadership, yesterday in Washington D.C....more »
Posted on March 19, 2008 2:40 PM
Obama and Israel: A Different Angle
A lot has been said on Barack Obama, Israel, and the Jewish community – including here at TPM. The tempo of this debate has predictably stepped-up with super-Tuesday around the corner. But a key argument, explaining why Obama has the...more »
Posted on February 3, 2008 5:17 PM
Five Comments on the Report into Israel’s Lebanon War
First a confession, I have not yet read all 629 pages of the final Winograd Committee Report that looks at the summer 2006 Lebanon War – I have read the summary, the commentary and watched the news conference. Based on...more »
Posted on January 31, 2008 12:52 PM
John Bolton Compares Israel to North Korea
The annual right-wing Israeli shindig known as the Herzliya Conference has just drawn to a close. The conference is organized by Uzi Arad, former adviser to Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, and has in the last years become an Israeli-American neo-con...more »
Posted on January 25, 2008 2:54 PM
The New Republic and National Review fabricate Middle East news – Say it Ain’t so…
Blatant fabrication in Middle East reporting by two outlets that take themselves very seriously – The New Republic Online (TNR) and the National Review Online (NRO) – has the blogosphere buzzing. The story went mainstream when the New York Times...more »
Posted on December 7, 2007 3:45 PM
