U.S. / Middle East Project

Backgrounders

Annapolis Convention Coverage

November 26/27, 2007: Remarks by President Bush, Prime Minister Olmert and President Abbas To Open Annapolis Convention
November 27, 2007: Opening Remarks at the Annapolis Conference
November 27, 2007: Closing Remarks at the Annapolis Conference

Members of the International Board at a meeting in Washington, D.C. on September 10, 2008.

A LAST CHANCE FOR A TWO-STATE ISRAEL-PALESTINE AGREEMENT

The U.S./Middle East Project has released recommendations for U.S. Middle East peacemaking submitted to the administration of President Barack Obama by a bipartisan group of ten former senior government officials: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Chuck Hagel, Lee H. Hamilton, Carla Hills, Nancy Kassebaum-Baker, Thomas R. Pickering, Brent Scowcroft, Theodore C. Sorensen, Paul A. Volcker, and James D. Wolfensohn. All of them are Senior Advisors of the U.S./Middle East Project and members of its International Board, chaired by General Scowcroft.


Middle East Reality Checkby Roger Cohen Gaza: The Lies of Warby Henry Siegman The subtext on Bin Laden's tapeEditorial If Obama Is Seriousby Aaron David Miller How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastropheby Avi Shlaim	Reforming the Palestinian Authority, Concluding Report, 2006 Strengthening of Palestinian Public Institutions, Initial Report, 1999 Harnessing Trade for Development and Growth in the Middle East, 2002 U.S. Middle East Policy and the Peace Process, July 1996	Looking Back, Looking Forward: Washington's Playbook After Annapolis Is Europe adrift in the Middle East? Ticking Clocks and 'Accidental War' Iraq: Assessing the Surge President Bush's Palestine Speech: A Critique and Optimistic Antidote