So welcome to this very special event. Welcome to the World Jewish Congress. On behalf of the president and the ceo cant be here today unfortunately but theyre definitely here in spirit. We want to thank you for attending. I want to acknowledge our chief program officer. Thank you. Tonights event is a very special event with a very special guest as well. Its under the the World Jewish Congress and young professionals, many of those anybody members here are port or that nutwork network and its in the field of Public Policy and diplomacy on behalf of the World Jewish Congress and we are all passionate about the causes to represent the causes of the jew eu people and to speak up on behalf of the causes and represent them. Im a member of the jd corps myself. Tonights event is organized under the tiedle the antiisrael agent and well analyze the global efforts to delegitimize israel and how to combat these ugly initiatives, and we of very happy we have a special guest speaker here today. We
Thank you very much for having me here and welcome to everybody. Thank you for being here. Its a great event. Great eventment. Host so, hard to believe but you have now been out of government for about nine years, just before we get into your new book on democracy, which i highly recommend, and well talk about in a few moments, tell us what you have been doing since you left government other than writing three bestselling book. Youre tetching at stanford. Guest ive gone back to my real risk had that digression into washington, but ive actually been at stanford sis i was 25. I start thread as an assistant professor and returned to stanford. My appointment is in the Business School but i teach both Business School students and undergraduates. Teach a course in American Foreign policy. Ive been able to do a little bit of work in the private sector, little consulting, and im spending a lot more time practicing the piano than i did when i was in the government. Thats really a great love and
President s policy pudge. Below Maryam Namazie in london this is aljazeera also coming up tens of thousands of survivors of the iran iraq of quake face a desperate future as the government scrambles to provide an eight frankly i had no real recollection of this meeting the u. S. Attorney general changes his story but insists he did not lie to congress about contacts between the russians and Trumps Campaign team. Was i will tell you about the speech schools taking children off the streets and into education in liberia. Zimbabwes ruling party says it will never succumb to pressure from the army and as warm the military chief against meddling in politics on monday general Constantino Chiwenga said the army was prepared to intervene if the pudges continued within zanu p. F. Party since then four Armored Vehicles have been seen on a road outside the zimbabwean capital harare a witness told the Reuters News Agency that two more were parked beside the main road from harare to chinoy is on a p
Koreans in connection with the case. He says theyre all currently in malaysia. One of the men wanted for questioning is a 44yearold second secretary at the north Korean Embassy in kuala lumpur. The second is a 37yearold employee of north koreas stateowned airline. Khalid says investigators do not yet know the occupation of the third man. Kim jongnam, the longestranged half brother of the north korean leader, was attacked last week at the Kuala Lumpur International airport. So far, two women are in custody. One is from indonesia, the other is from vietnam. Police have also detained one north korean man. One of the female suspects claims she thought they were caught up in a prank for a tv program. Police say they dont believe the story. They say the women were trained to wipe toxins on kims face and wash their hands after. Police also revealed they have asked pyongyang to hand over four other north korean suspects they have been searching for. We strongly believe all of them has left the
[inaudible conversations] thank you. I appreciate you all coming. Im going to ask to talk about two books. Originally i was asked to talk about 30 day in september which i will do. But since i was invited to this conference, another book of mine has come out, a collection of my articles on terrorism, called the terror years. And so i will first talk about peace, and then ill talk about terror. And seems like a natural progression, right . I guest the best way of beginning this is telling you how i got started with 13 days. Gerald, jimmy carters media adviser in the white house, called me up out of the blue and asked if i would be willing to write a play about camp david, and his pitch was, a bornagain christian, an orthodox jew and a pious muslim go behind closed doors for 13 days and emerge with the only durable peace in middle east. So pretty good pitch. And it was affecting to me because my wife and i had lived in georgia when jimmy was governor, and when he ran for president. We ha