Foundation for Middle East Peace

Foundation for Middle East Peace 501(c)(3) "Established in 1979 by the late Merle Thorpe, Jr., the Foundation is dedicated to promoting, through various activities, a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that brings peace and security to both peoples." 

The Foundation has "published or supported publications of books, including the following:


 * Prescription for Conflict: Israel's West Bank Settlement Policy, by Merle Thorpe, Jr. (1984). (A few copies of Prescription for Conflict are still available.
 * Error and Betrayal in Lebanon, by George W. Ball (1984)
 * Facing the PLO Question, by Philip Klutznick, former president of B'nai B'rith International and the World Jewish Congress, Meir Merhav of the Jerusalem Post, and Hermann Eilts, former U.S. ambassador to Egypt (1985)
 * A Policy for the Moment of Truth, by Major General (Ret.) Yehoshafat Harkabi (1988)
 * No Trumpets, No Drums, by Mark Heller and Sari Nusseibeh (New York: Hill and Wang, 1991), a Foundation-supported book analyzing the "two-state solution" to the conflict
 * The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks: 1991-1996 and Beyond, by Helena Cobban, U.S. Institute for Peace, 2000."

Officers

 * Ambassador Philip C. Wilcox, Jr. is the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. *Geoffrey Aronson is the Director of Research and Publications and is the Editor of the Foundation's bimonthly Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories.

Trustees

 * Calvin H. Cobb, Jr., Esq. (Chairman of the Board of Trustees)
 * Hon. Philip C. Wilcox, Jr.
 * Hon. Lucius D. Battle, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East and South Asian Affairs, and former President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and the Middle East Institute
 * James Cromwell, Esq.
 * Stephen Hartwell
 * Richard S. T. Marsh, Esq.
 * Hon. Richard Murphy
 * William B. Quandt
 * Jean Newsom, former Executive Director of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and former Editor of the Middle East Journal
 * Landrum R. Bolling, former president of Earlham College, the Council on Foundations, the Lilly Endowment, and president of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem
 * Nicholas A. Veliotes, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Jordan
 * Peter Gubser, President, American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
 * Gail Pressberg, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Civil Society.

Staff
Source
 * Nitzan Goldberger is the Research Assistant at the Foundation for Middle East Peace. She holds a degree in Political Science from UC Berkeley.

Contact
1761 N Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Tel: (202) 835-3650 Fax: (202) 835-3651 Email: info AT fmep.org Web: http://www.fmep.org