Michael Oren: The Future of Israel

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Partner:: Aspen Institute
Location:: Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen, CO
Event Date:: 07.02.09
Speakers:: Jeffrey Goldberg,; Michael Oren
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Summary: Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the United States, discusses the political conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians as part of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival.

Oren approaches the subject both as a historian and as an American immigrant to Israel.

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Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg is a national correspondent of The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic in 2007, he was Middle East correspondent and Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. Previously, Goldberg served as a correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and New York magazine. His book Prisoners has been hailed as one of the best books of 2006 by several publications including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.

Goldberg is the recipient of numerous awards including the Anti-Defamation League Daniel Pearl Prize, the National Magazine Award for Reporting for his coverage of Islamic terrorism, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists prize for best international investigative journalist, to name a few. Goldberg was a public policy scholar in 2002 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and in 2001 he was the Syrkin fellow in letters of the Jerusalem Foundation.

Michael Oren

Michael B. Oren is the Israeli ambassador designate to the United States. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based research facility, where he specialized in the diplomatic and military history of the Middle East.

He has written extensively for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic, of which he is a contributing editor. His latest book is Power, Faith, and Fantasy: American in the Middle East 1776 to the Present.

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01 hr 11 min 57 sec

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01.: Introduction

04 min 27 sec

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02.: Personal Zionist Journey

05 min 18 sec

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03.: Interdependence of Israeli and American Jews

03 min 52 sec

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04.: Safety of Living in Israel

02 min 55 sec

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05.: Firm Belief in the Jewish Nation

03 min 29 sec

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06.: Immaculate Misconception of Zionism

09 min 10 sec

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07.: Necessary Recognition of Jewish and Palestinian States

02 min 18 sec

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08.: Issue of Settlements

02 min 33 sec

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09.: Existential Threat from Iran

02 min 56 sec

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10.: Other Threats

01 min 46 sec

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11.: Q1: Acceptance of Israeli Settlements in Palestinian State

04 min 28 sec

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12.: Q2: Calling Israel the Jewish State

03 min 27 sec

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13.: Q3: Controversial Foreign Minister

04 min 23 sec

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14.: Q4: Jerusalem

00 min 29 sec

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15.: Q5: UN Peace Keeping Forces

02 min 49 sec

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16.: Q6: Disconnect Between Pro-Israel Americans and Israel

08 min 26 sec

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17.: Q7: Palestinian Refugees

09 min 01 sec

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Oren Says 'Mutual Legitimacy' Key to Middle East Conflict

02 min 19 sec

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Michael Oren on Zionism and American Jewry

03 min 49 sec

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