A succinct and insightful snapshot of the dynamics of the current Israeli-Palestinian situation can be found in the following transcript of a talk on 18 February, 2018 given by Daniel Levy, a leading Middle East political analyst and former Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the European Council on Foreign Relations, at the Valdai Conference in Moscow, ‘Russia in the Middle East’. The panel addressed the question of ‘Middle Eastern Settlement: An Exploded Quiet?'. Levy's talk dissects the various strands of political dynamics in the Trump era, those in Israel as well as those in Palestine. It serves as a handy guide to the thorny and potentially unsettling conundrum confronting the Middle East.
Download Daniel Levy speech on Israeli-Palestinian situation