Daniel Lubetzky

I just got this very cool invitation from Laurel Rapp, who runs our International Education Program… You’re Invited: Global Town Hall Meeting (webcast live to your classroom!) Ever wonder what young Israelis and Palestinians growing up in conflict zones hope for, dream about, and are working to change? Ever wonder what both groups are doing [...]

Whatever your opinion on Jimmy Carter and his controversial trip to Syria to meet with President Assad and with Hamas leader Khaled Maashal, reading the report in Carter’s own words should be of value: http://cartercenter.org/news/trip_reports/middle_east_2008.html  Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan: April 13-22, 2008 [...]

Like Hotel Rwanda, Beyond the Gates (aka Shooting Dogs) peers into the genocide in Rwanda, here from the eyes of an older priest and a young teacher who witness the slaughter by Hutu militia wielding machetes on Tutsi refugees as UN peace-monitors stand by.  Less than 15 years ago this true story took place.  After [...]

Philip Stephens wrote an excellent column in the Financial Times about our craving for simple theories and categorizations to describe the new world order of the day, and the uncomfortable reality that geo-political developments are far more nuanced.  He concludes: We live in an era of jagged lines where established power structures are buckling, yet [...]

We have grown so distant from nature that we no longer know, or even care, about where things come from, or how they look in their original state. I was curious about these, so I finally looked it up.  Can you guess their origins and natural form? 1) Water Chestnuts 2) Sesame Seeds 3) Oats [...]

Charlotte Allen writes in the Wall Street Journal about the creation of ASMEA, the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, as an counterweight alternative to the highly-politicized MESA, the Middle East Studies Association. Towering scholar Bernard Lewis, described by Allen as the "eminence grise" of Islamic studies, is oddly enough the [...]

David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, wrote about OneVoice on his blog.

Daniel Levy asserts (see his Point #4) that the Bush Administration is blocking negotiations that both the Syrian and Israeli Heads of State desire.  He quotes Ambassador Martin Indyk (a member of our Honorary Board and a man who nobody would accuse of coming from the left) on his testimony to the House Foreign Relations [...]

Today Sherazad Hamit and I were in the Bay Area to discuss OneVoice’s campaign for 2008 with several of our supporters. When in San Francisco, we visited with Cissie Swig, an elegant and thoughtful leader of the Bay Area civic community (I think her family owns or used to own the famed Fairmont Hotel, and [...]