Intelligence Squared US

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2006

A DEMOCRATICALLY-ELECTED HAMAS IS STILL A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

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The Panel

For The Motion

  • Daniel Ayalon
    Daniel Ayalon
    FOR THE MOTION
    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
    Steven A. Cook
    FOR THE MOTION
    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
    John O’Sullivan
    FOR THE MOTION
    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.

Against The Motion

  • Stanley L. Cohen
    Stanley L. Cohen
    AGAINST THE MOTION
    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.
  • Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
    Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
    AGAINST THE MOTION
    Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould 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
    Mark Perry
    AGAINST THE MOTION
    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).

Moderator

John Donvan is a correspondent for ABC News Nightline. He has served as ABC White House Correspondent, along with postings in Moscow, London, Jerusalem and Amman.

Poll Results

Pre-Debate Poll Results
60% For | 19% Against | 21%

Post Debate Poll Results
53% For | 30% Against | 17%

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