BU Now » Foreign Policy Association http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Israel/Palestine: If not now, when? http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/03/15/israelpalestine-if-not-now-when/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2010/03/15/israelpalestine-if-not-now-when/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:49:20 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=4792 Israel-Palestine mazeThe Foreign Policy Association has issued a new report urging the U.S. to take a more assertive role in pushing for a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians.  “Israel and Palestine: Two States for Two Peoples — If not now, when?” was co-authored by BU international relations Professor Augustus Richard Norton, who notes that President Obama said in his Cairo speech last year that a two-state solution is in all parties’ best interests.

“Delivering on that vision will lend credibility to his words and cast the United States in the role of peacemaker rather than policeman.”

Contact Augustus Richard Norton, 617-353-7808, arn@bu.edu

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