The Status of Jerusalem
June 3, 2009, 1:30-2:30 PM
As Israelis and Palestinians consider reopening negotiations, the final status issues—such as
Middle East Progress at the Center for American Progress presents three experts who have been looking at the issue of
Introduction:
Rudy deLeon, Senior Vice President, National Security and International Policy
Featured Discussants:
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
Discussion Moderated by:
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
More on the status of Jerusalem and the future of the Old City:
Solving the Problem of the Old City: An Interview with Michael Bell
Middle East Bulletin
June 23, 2009
The Missing Peaces: How to Govern Jerusalem and Strike an Israeli-Syrian Deal
Michael D. Bell and Daniel C. Kurtzer; Prem G. Kumar
Foreign Affairs, March/Apr 2009

