| PAST DEBATE |
| A DEMOCRATICALLY-ELECTED HAMAS IS STILL A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION |
FOR: 60% AGAINST: 19% UNDECIDED: 21%
FOR: 53% AGAINST: 30% UNDECIDED: 17%
MODERATOR
Judy Woodruff is a veteran broadcast journalist who has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS. Woodruff left CNN full-time in June 2005 to pursue longer-form journalism opportunities but will remain a consultant and occasional contributor to CNN. Through 2006, she is working with PBS interviewing American young people and conducting a series of reports to the nation on their views.
Daniel Ayalon is Israel’s ambassador to the United States. Since 2002, he has worked extensively with the US administration and Congress in advancing economic, political and diplomatic relations. He has served the last three consecutive Israeli administrations, most recently as Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. In the 1990s, he was posted in New York and Panama.
Steven A. Cook is the Douglas Dillon Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. An expert on Arab politics and US Middle East policy, Cook directed the Council’s Independent Task Force on reform in the Arab World. He has written widely on Islamist politics and democratic development in the Middle East.
John O’Sullivan is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He is a political journalist who has edited publications from The National Review to the London Times. He is currently writing a book on Reagan, Thatcher and the Pope. O’Sullivan began his career as a London correspondent for Irish Radio & Television.
Stanley L. Cohen is an American lawyer who is probably best known for his defense of Mousa Abu Marzook the head of the political wing of Hamas, whose extradition from the United States was sought by Israel in 1995. Over the years he has represented many other Muslim and Palestinian activists and imams throughout the United States and overseas.
Mahmoud Mohamedou is Associate Director of the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. Previously, he served as Director of Research at the International Council on Human Rights in Geneva, where he helped found and direct the research and policy program. He is the author of several books and essays on human rights, civil society and conflict.
Mark Perry is a former journalist, current author and co-director of the UK/DC-based Conflicts Forum. Through Conflicts Forum, Perry has been engaged in a series of exchanges with Hamas over the past two years. He has worked with Arafat’s Fatah wing and Hamas to cool their political competition. He is author of A Fire in Zion: The Israeli-Palestinian Search for Peace (1994).
We have moved to a new venue: NYU SKIRBALL CENTER (566 LaGuardia Place) Reception 5:45 - 6:30PM Debate 6:45 - 8:30PM Tickets $45
