BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:949@test.arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20150421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20150421T140000 DTSTAMP:20150413T153030Z URL:https://test.arabamerica.com/events/washingtons-evolving-policy-toward -israel-and-palestine/ SUMMARY:Washington’s Evolving Policy Toward Israel and Palestine DESCRIPTION:DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA\n\nThe Palestine Center invites you to a p anel briefing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWashington’s Evolving Policy Toward Israel an d Palestine\nwith\nLaila El-Haddad\nAuthor and political analyst\nWilliam Quandt\nProfessor Emeritus of Politics\,\nThe University of Virginia\n& \;\nJoshua Ruebner\nPolicy Director\,\nU.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Oc cupation\n\nTuesday\, 21 April 2015\n1:00 - 2:00 p.m.\nThe Palestine Cente r\n\n\nClick here to RSVP now!\nIn light of Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent reelection and his pronouncement about Palestinian statehood\, many in Was hington are reexamining U.S. policy toward Israel and Palestine. Presiden t Obama commented\, "...we’ve got to evaluate what other options are ava ilable to make sure that we don’t see a chaotic situation in the region. "\n\nThis panel discussion will try to elucidate what these options might be and assess their short term and long term implications on Washington’ s evolving policy in the region. What will be the impact on the U.S.-Israe li "special relationship"? Are profound changes possible? What kinds of pr essures on Israel might be effective? How has the regional context changed \, and how does it influence U.S. policy objectives? What are the implicat ions for the Palestinians and the Palestinian leadership? What is the role of the Boycott\, Divestment\, and Sanctions movement?\n\nLaila El-Haddad  is an award-winning writer and social media activist from Gaza City. She is the author of Gaza Mom: Palestine\, Politics\, Parenting\, and Everyt hing In Between and co-author of the critically acclaimed The Gaza Kitch en: A Palestinian Culinary Journey. From 2003 to 2007\, El-Haddad was the Gaza correspondent for the Al Jazeera English website and a regular contri butor to the BBC andThe Guardian online as well as radio correspondent fo r Pacifica’s Free Speech Radio News. She has been published in the Balt imore Sun\, Washington Post\, International Herald Tribune\, The New St atesman\, The Daily Star\, Le monde diplomatique\, and has appeared on C NN\, NPR\, and Al Jazeera. Since November 2004\, she has authored a widely recognized blog now known as Gaza Mom. A graduate of Duke and Harvard\, she currently makes her home in Columbia\, Maryland with her husband and t heir three children.\n\n\nWilliam Quandt is Professor Emeritus of Politic s at the University of Virginia. Prior to this appointment\, he was a Seni or Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Instituti on\, where he conducted research on the Middle East\, American policy towa rd the Arab-Israeli conflict\, and energy policy. Dr. Quandt served as a s taff member on the National Security Council (1972-1974\, 1977-1979) and w as actively involved in the negotiations that led to the Camp David Accord s and the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. His selective bibliography includ es: Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967\, (Brookings\, 2005\, third edition)\, Between Ballots and Bullets: Algeria's Transition from Authoritarianism\, (Brookings\, 1998)\; and Th e United States and Egypt: An Essay on Policy for the 1990s\, (Brookings\, 1990) among many others.\n\n\n\nJoshua Ruebner is the author of Shatter ed Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace (Verso Bo oks\, 2013). He is the Policy Director of the U.S. Campaign to End the Isr aeli Occupation\, a national coalition of more than 400 organizations work ing to end U.S. support for Israel’s illegal 47-year military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank\, East Jerusalem\, and Gaza Strip\, and to c hange U.S. policy toward Israel and the Palestinians to support human righ ts\, international law\, and equality. Ruebner is a former Analyst in Midd le East Affairs at Congressional Research Service\, a federal government a gency providing Members of Congress with policy analysis. He holds a gradu ate degree in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University School o f Advanced International Studies in Washington\, DC. Ruebner’s analysis and commentary on U.S. policy toward the Middle East appear frequently in media such as NBC\, ABC Nightline\, CSPAN\, Al Jazeera\, USA Today\, Los Angeles Times\, The Hill\, Detroit Free Press\, Huffington Post\,Middl e East Report\, and more.\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://test.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/04/ImageProxy-16.mvc_.jpeg CATEGORIES:Academic Lecture LOCATION:The Jerusalem Fund\, 2425 Virginia Ave NW\, Washington\, DC\, Unit ed States GEO:38.8988618;-77.0525414 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2425 Virginia Ave NW\, Wash ington\, DC\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Jerusalem Fund: geo:38.8988618,-77.0525414 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR