Transcript No. 309 (2 February 2009)
At a Palestine Center briefing entitled “Requirements for Co-existence with Hamas,” Mr. Amjad Atallah of the New America Foundation said that in engaging with Israel and Palestine, the U.S. will have to deal with everyone because Hamas controls the Gaza Strip and Fateh is in control of parts of the West Bank. Dr. Robert Pastor of American University and senior advisor to the Carter Center explained that there are extraordinary opportunities that await everyone in the Middle East, in the form of the Arab Peace Initiative to the appointment of U.S. Senator George Mitchell as Middle East envoy.
To view the video of this briefing online, go to [LINK] for Mr. Atallah’s remarks and [LINK] for Dr. Pastor’s remarks.