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Conference of the Air:

Is the U.S-Israel Alliance in Crisis?

Sunday, November 30, 2014  12 noon - 1:30 pm (PDT);  3:00 pm - 4: 30 pm (EDT)

 

 

 

Listen live at Western Word Radio or anytime thereafter at
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/westernwordradio/2014/11/30/is-there-a-crisis-in-relations-between-israel-and-the-united-states

Featuring commentators from around the globe

About the Speakers:

Avi Davis is an attorney, journalist, travel journalist, commentator, documentarian and Senior Fellow of the American Freedom Alliance. He is currently a Senior fellow of the American Freedom Alliance – a Los Angeles based organization formed to identify threats to Western civilization and uphold Western values and ideals. In this capacity he has coordinated seven major international conferences The Collapse of Europe? (Pepperdine University, June 2007); Identity Crisis: Can European Civilization Survive? (Rome, March 2008); How Free is the University? (USC, June 2008); Is the (Real) News Dead? (Pepperdine University, June 2010); Big Footprint: Is Green the New Tyranny? (UCLA, June 2011) and Global Governance vs National Sovereignty (Los Angeles, June 2012).

David Pryce-Jones is the author of books dealing with contemporary events and including ten novels. In 1967 and 1973 he covered the wars in the Middle East for the Daily Telegraph and afterwards wrote The Face of Defeat (1974) about the Palestinians, and the best-selling The Closed Circle (1989) about the Arab world. He has published regularly in Commentary, New Criterion, the Wall Street Journal, and since 1999 has been a Senior Editor of National Review. He lives in London.

Mordechai Kedar  (born 1952 in Tel Aviv; Hebrew: מרדכי קידר‎; Arabic: مردخاي كيدار‎) is an Israeli scholar of Arabic literature and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. He holds the Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University. Kedar is an academic expert on the Israeli Arab population. He served for twenty-five years in IDF Military Intelligence, where he specialized in Islamic groups, the political discourse of Arab countries, the Arabic press and mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena. The Los Angeles Times‘ Edmund Sanders described him as “one of the few Arabic-speaking Israeli pundits seen on Arabic satellite channels defending Israel”.

Jonathan S. Tobin is executive editor of Commentary magazine, America’s premier monthly journal of opinion and ideas. In addition to editing and writing feature articles for Commentary, he also writes for the magazine’s “Contentions” blog on its website www.commmentarymagazine.com Prior to coming to Commentary at the beginning of 2009, Mr. Tobin was editor-in-chief of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia from 1998 to 2008. During his editorship the Exponent won over 120 awards for editorial and graphic excellence and solidified its reputation as one of the leading Anglo-Jewish newspapers in the world.

Yoram Ettinger is a researcher, writer, lecturer  and  diploma, a consultant to Israel and U.S.legislators on US-Israel relations, Middle East politics, the Iranian nuclear threat, the Palestinian issue and the Jewish-Arab demographic balance. He is a co-founder of the America-Israel Demographic Research Group (AIDRG), which has documented a one million gap in the number of Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza.  He is also Executive Director of Second Thought: A US - Israel Initiative, an organization dedicated to education through out-of-the-box thinking on US-Israel relations, Middle East affairs, the Palestinian issue, Jewish-Arab demographics.  From 1989-1992 he was Minister for Congressional Affairs – with the rank of Ambassador - at Israel’s Embassy in Washington, DC, dealing with bilateral commercial, foreign aid, military and diplomatic ties.

Andrew G. Bostom, M.D., M.S. is the author of the highly acclaimed The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims and his new book, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn Histor. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Renal Diseases at Rhode Island Hospital , the major teaching affiliate of Brown University Medical School . Dr. Bostom has published numerous articles and commentaries on Islam in the The New York Daily News and many other publications.