Activities

International Board Missions

The International Board of the U.S./Middle East Project regularly undertakes visits and consultations with Middle Eastern and European heads of state and with leaders of their business communities and civil society. Recent missions visited with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, King Abdullah of Jordan, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

The subject of these encounters has been Middle East peacemaking, regional economic development, democracy and reform.



International Board Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 6-7, 2009

International Board Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 6-7, 2009

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TO AVERT DISASTER, STOP ISOLATING HAMAS

In this op-ed for the Financial Times, Lord Patten of Barnes asks if it is not time for the U.S., Europe, the Arab League and other concerned parties to rescue Israel and Palestine from a drift to further disaster. Interested players must end the fragmentation of Palestine, promote a reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah, and set out in a Security Council resolution what they believe an agreement in Palestine and Israel should comprise, he urges. If others will not sign up to this the European Union should go it alone.

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