Who Benefited from Oslo, Who Suffered?

ARI Media Feed · October 3, 2013

September 29, 2013: A Conference on the Mid East "Peace Process"

What: A panel on U.S. policy in the Middle East and the Arab-Israel conflict.

Who: Rick Richman, Mordechai Kedar and Elan Journo
Moderated by Larry Greenfield

Where: Oslo @ Twenty
Costs and Consequences of the Peace Process – An International Conference
The Olympic Collection
1130 Olympic BLVD.
West Los Angeles, CA 90064

When: Sunday, September 29, 2013, 10am

Admission: General Admission: $60
Students: $35

Includes full lunch, refreshments, conference source book and all materials.

Registration and tickets

Parking: $10 by valet

About: A day-long conference sponsored by the American Freedom Alliance and Speaking for Democracy. The organizers' description of the event:

The Oslo Peace Accords, signed on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, are now 20 years old. Between 1993 and the present day, the region has absorbed so much trauma, violence and terror that the belief among those who predicted that an ultimate peace between Arabs and Israelis was close at hand has been proved illusory at best and delusional at worst. But whatever one's view of the Accords and the peace process it spawned, there remain important questions deserving answers: What were the geopolitical conditions which gave rise to the Accords? Did the Accords have any positive impact upon the region and who ultimately benefited? More important than any other question, however, is what lessons, if any, can the West draw from the Accords and their aftermath?

Bios:

Rick Richman is a graduate of Harvard College and NYU Law School. He edits "Jewish Current Issues" and is one of the bloggers at COMMENTARY Magazine's group blog, "Contentions." His articles have appeared in American Thinker, COMMENTARY Magazine, The Jewish Press, The New York Sun, and Pajamas Media, among other publications and websites

Mordechai Kedar is an Israeli scholar of Arabic literature and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. He holds the Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University. Kedar is an academic expert on the Israeli Arab population. He served for twenty-five years in IDF Military Intelligence, where he specialized in Islamic groups, the political discourse of Arab countries, the Arabic press and mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena. The Los Angeles Times' Edmund Sanders described him as "one of the few Arabic-speaking Israeli pundits seen on Arabic satellite channels defending Israel".

Elan Journo is fellow and director of policy research at the Ayn Rand Institute. His book, Winning the Unwinnable War: America's Self-Crippled Response to Islamic Totalitarianism, analyzes post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy from the perspective of Rand’s philosophy. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, the Journal of International Security Affairs, and the Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, and in popular media outlets.

Moderator: Larry Greenfield is senior fellow of the American Freedom Alliance, and fellow in American studies at the Claremont Institute. He is also the founding executive director of the Reagan Legacy Foundation, and a noted lecturer on American politics and foreign policy. He served in the Armed Forces of the United States in Naval Intelligence and earned his BA in political science at UC Berkeley and his Law Degree at the Georgetown University Law Center.

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