Former Israeli Negotiator Exposes Truth About US & Iran

Daniel Levy is a British-Israeli analyst, commentator, and former Israeli government negotiator whose biography reads like a map of the peace process’s rise and fall. He served as an official negotiator under Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak. He went into those negotiations as a believer, but came out of them with a very different view of what Israel actually intended.

Ash sat down with Daniel Levy at a pivotal moment. A new Iran deal has just been announced, with shipping through the Strait of Hormuz set to reopen, and an extension of the current US-Iran ceasefire for 60 days, with a permanent end to the war the stated goal of upcoming talk. Though it leaves critical issues, including the fate of Iran’s nuclear programme, unresolved.

In this conversation, recorded as the ink is barely dry on the new framework, Daniel Levy picks apart what’s really been achieved, who blinked first, and why a ceasefire announced from the Oval Office is not remotely the same thing as peace.