The left-leaning Center for American Progress’ Middle East Progress will host a forum on Jerusalem next month. The speakers all have extensive knowledge on Israel-U.S. relations and should provide great insights into the role of the city in future peace negotiations. The United States believes that the city’s status will be determined in final status negotiations whereas Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently insisted that Jerusalem would remain in the State of Israel if there happens to be a two-state solution. To RSVP go to: http://zedc3test.techprogress.org/events/2009/06/jerusalem.html
The Status of Jerusalem
June 3, 2009, 1:00pm – 2:30pm
As Israelis and Palestinians consider reopening negotiations, the final status issues — such as Jerusalem, refugees, security and borders — loom on the horizon. For over a decade, Palestinians, Israelis and others have been working on creative solutions to these seemingly intractable challenges.
Middle East Progress at the Center for American Progress invites you to hear from three experts who have been looking at the issue of Jerusalem, the city at the heart of the conflict: Ambassador Michael Bell, co-director of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative at the University of Windsor, and former Canadian ambassador to Jordan, Egypt and Israel; Marshall Breger, professor of law at the Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America, co-author of Jerusalem’s Holy Places and the Peace Process and consultant to the Jerusalem Old City Initiative; and moderator Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer, S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern Policy Studies at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt.
The discussion will focus on the multiple challenges Jerusalem poses to any resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian and broader Arab-Israeli conflict and how they might be resolved.
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