At the arrow you can read these names:
James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute;
Amin Tarzi, Director of Middle East Studies at the Marine Corps University; Leon Hadar, research fellow at the Cato Institute;
Jonathan Alterman, Director and senior fellow at the Middle East Program of the Center for Strategic International Studies;
and
Thomas Mattair, Executive Director of the Middle East Policy Council
Do you think this is a balanced and pluralistic list of speakers?
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Amin Tarzi, an Afghan, is a good guy. Hadar is a somewhat unhinged anti-Israel former Israeli. Alterman is a very dovish--better than J Street--guy. The US Policy Council is very anti-Israel in a more traditional former State Department way. And Zogby is Zogby. Agreed, that it isn't a balanced panel. That makes three dedicated anti-Israel people, one dove, and someone who will talk about South Asian issues. What is virtually always lacking--be it NPR or such panels, newspaper interviews, etc., is NOT a right-wing Israel perspective but a mainstream Israeli perspective. Come to think about it, there usually isn't a U.S. national interests perspective either.
Thanks so much for your post, really effective data.
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