Yossi Alpher, one-time senior Mossad officer and now a full-time peace negotiator and analyst asserts that the US will miss a golden opportunity if it blocks the UN resolution on Palestinian statehood.
Yossi Alpher is a writer and consultant on regional strategic issues, and director of the Political Security Domain (PSD), an independent NGO. He is coeditor of bitterlemons.org and bitterlemons-international.org together with Ghassan Khatib, former Minister of Planning in the Palestinian Authority. Bitterlemons.org is a web-based Israeli-Palestinian political dialogue magazine; Bitterlemons International is a web-based “Middle East roundtable”. Alpher also serves on the executive committee of the Council for Peace and Security.
Mr. Alpher has served as director and acting head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University; as director of the American Jewish Committee’s Israel/Middle East Office in Jerusalem; and as a senior official in the Mossad. While at the Jaffee Center, he coordinated and coedited the JCSS research project on options for a Palestinian settlement, and produced “The Alpher Plan” for an Israeli-Palestinian final settlement. Since 1992, he has coordinated several Track II dialogues between Israelis and Arabs. In July 2000 he served as special adviser to the prime minister of Israel, concentrating on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In late 2001 he published (in Hebrew) And the Wolf Shall Dwell with the Wolf: the Settlers and the Palestinians. (Source: Midcoast Forum on Foreign Relations)
This talk was recorded October 3, 2011 at Point Lookout in Northport.