David Makovsky is the Ziegler dis­tin­guished fel­low at The Wash­ing­ton Insti­tute, and direc­tor of the Project on Arab-Israel Rela­tions. He is an adjunct pro­fes­sor of Mid­dle East stud­ies at the Johns Hop­kins University’s School of Advanced Inter­na­tion­al Stud­ies since 2000, and was a senior advi­sor on Israel-Pales­tin­ian affairs in the Office of the Sec­re­tary of State dur­ing the Oba­ma Administration.