Shibley Telhami | December 10, 2010 1:16pm

Can the Israelis and Palestinians Reach a Peace Agreement?

At a recent Brookings event, Shibley Telhami discussed the findings of three new public opinion surveys assessing attitudes toward the current state of the Middle East peace process. Telhami said that a peace agreement cannot be imposed on the Israelis and Palestinians and, given the deep mistrust between them, it’s unlikely that they can forge an accord on their own.

Shibley Telhami

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy

Shibley Telhami, a nonresident senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, is a former advisor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and the Iraq Study Group. He is an expert on U.S. policy in the Middle East, particularly on the role of the news media in shaping political identity and public opinion in the region.

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