Ambassador Jake Walles is currently a nonresident seniorfellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.He previously served as ambassador to Tunisia, consulgeneral and chief of mission in Jerusalem and has been anactive participant in U.S. efforts to promote peace in theMiddle East dating back to the Madrid Conference in 1991.
Two states for two peoples is the only way to reconcile the national aspirations of
both sides, a clear, shared objective to be agreed at the outset and achieved through a step-by-step process.