As choosing the option that said we would like a twostate solution so we can go on building our own oil or neighbors build their own. Its actually worse numbers that have appeared in similar polls in other years. Sometimes its been more 50 50 that even 50 50 isnt enough. There has to be a consensus on the palestinian side. It doesnt have to be 100 . There has to be a consensus that they will go for permanent peace. Permanent peace also means policing. If there is a palestinian state than you can allow it to be a base for attacks on neighboring states. Rather than look for blame in some day today in every action on the diplomatic front or on the settlement building front or on the military front that the essential question is who wants peace and he wants fighting . On that question, its pretty clear that the blame is today as it has been since the conflict began on one side. Thank you and with that can i ask members of the audience to join me in thanking joshua muravchik. [applause] he
I tell the story in this journey over the past decade and a half or so but coming almost right up to the present. I think i didnt want to do a quickie book in 2011. I went to being a historian and having perspective and thought well of in my profession. And so even to write something after three years is oaudacious. The first generation was elected into office in 20112012 and a raft of books said this is the islamic winter. Not the arab springs. Lets talk about the people who made the changes. Lets talk about this generation. What are they like and who are they and what have they done. Let me read a little from the book about an internet activist of the early 00s. He setup an internet Discussion Group and magazine which was very lively and was very much disliked by the dictatorship. And he ran this for some years and then his Internet Police finally tracked him down at 5 p. M. On june 4th, 2002 six plane closed police man raided the cafe he worked and took him to his apartment and took
Our authors who are agreeing to participate in this reflection on the book and where the arab world is now in the wake of this publication and in the wake of all of the developments of the last three plus years. Im going to briefly introduce our speakers. They will speak each for about 10 minutes in the order that i want to reduce them. I may ask them a few more questions and try and get them to fight with one another intellectually. Then we will have plenty of time for you to pose your questions or challenges to them and to all of us. Dan brumberg is one of our oldest in terms of longestserving partners in the journal of democracy. In fact he joined our editorial at an early stage of his career. And its been very influential in shaping our coverage of the Political Developments related to the arab world and associate professor of government and codirector of the program of democracy and government at georgetown university. He also serves as a special adviser with the institute of peac
Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by at bae systems, our pride and ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill ukraines prorussian president has announced a truce after a latenight meeting with the proeuropean opposition. That follows tuesdays allout battles and bloodshed in kiev that left at least 26 dead and hund
Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by at bae systems, our pride and ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are not afraid to question the path theyre on. Because the one question they never want to ask is, how did i end up here . I started schwab with those people. People who want to take ownership of their investments, like they do in every other aspect of their lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill ukraines prorussian president has announced a truce after a latenight meeting with the proeuropean opposition. That follows tuesdays allout battles and bloodshed in kiev that left at least 26 dead and hund