Daniel Levy at ‘Jerusalem: Legalising the Occupation’ conference

Address by Daniel Levy at MEMO’s ‘Jerusalem: Legalising the Occupation‘ conference held in London on March 3, 2018

Daniel Levy is the President of the US/Middle East Project and the former MENA Programme Director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. During the government of Israel’s Ehud Barak, Levy worked in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office as Special Adviser and Head of Jerusalem Affairs, following which he worked as Senior Policy Adviser to then Israeli Minister of Justice, Yossi Beilin.

Negotiations and the Impact of Trump’s Declaration

After the Oslo Accords designated Jerusalem a final status issue, Israel used the interim period to create what it deemed irreversible facts on the ground. Two decades on, the US has decided to move its embassy to Jerusalem and recognise the city as Israel’s undivided and eternal capital. This, according to President Trump, is merely “recognition of reality”.