Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi, Director of the Transatlantic Institute, gives a briefing concerning the facts known about the nuclear program in Iran and the steps Europe can take to pressure Iran to cease development of their nuclear capabilities and curtail human rights abuses.
Bio
Jana Hybaskova
Jana Hybaskova is a Czech politician and Member of the European Parliament with the European Democrats, part of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development.
Emanuele Ottolenghi
Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi is Executive Director at the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels. He previously taught Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and at the Middle East Centre of St. Antony's College, Oxford University.
He holds a degree in Political Science from University of Bologna, Italy, and a Ph.D. in political theory from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Since 1998 he is at Oxford.
His research focuses on Israeli domestic politics, specifically coalition and party politics, and elections, post-Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict (mainly the Oslo era), Europe's new anti-Semitism and European attitudes to the Middle East. He is currently finishing a book on Israel's electoral reforms in the 1990s.
AJC Experts
Emanuele Ottolenghi is the executive director of AJC's Transatlantic Institute. Ottolenghi is a recognized expert on transatlantic relations and Middle East affairs and widely regarded as an important source for news media. His op-ed articles have appeared in the National Review, New York Sun, Jerusalem Post, the Guardian, among other leading newspapers and magazines. Prior to joining the Transatlantic Institute, he was the Leone Ginzburg Research Fellow in Israel Studies at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Middle East Center at St. Antony's College. He has held positions at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., as well as the University of New South Wales, in Australia. Born in Bologna, Italy, Ottolenghi speaks English, French, Hebrew and Italian. (extratc from the AJC website : http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKo...JC_Experts.htm
It would have been appropriate to indicate what the Transatlantic Institute is. Indeed, knowing that it is closely linked to the American Jewish Committee. Can you expect this distinguished gentleman to be objective in what he says? Surely he walks like a duck, squawks like a duck and yet we are supposed to believe that he is not a Zionist duck, once again delivering the same old propaganda?