U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross (left) being interviewed by Dalia Dassa Kaye of The RAND Corporation. (Photo: Jacob Goldberg/ UCLA.)
The Y&S Nazarian Center's annual "one-day university" on Israel featured lively panel discussions of the Israeli high-tech sector, contemporary arts and the Jewish Renewal movement. In his keynote speech, U.S. Ambassador Dennis Ross urged the Israelis and Palestinians to each take steps to assure the other of their commitment to the peace process.
The “narrative issues” of refugees and Jerusalem “go to the heart of self-definition and identity” of both Israelis and Palestinians, said Ambassador Dennis Ross, and must be addressed first in peace negotiations.