Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations and editor of its Middle East Channel; senior research fellow at the New America Foundation; former Policy Director for the Geneva Initiative, a joint Israeli-Palestinian plan for peace; former advisor and peace negotiator for then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak
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