Israeli Commentator Yossi Klein Halevi visits Los Angeles

Distinguished Israeli analyst Yossi Klein Halevi visited AJC Los Angeles on March 31, 2009. Klein Halevi, a senior fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem addressed the Israel Affairs Committee and Intergroup Partners about the new Israeli government and the situation in the Middle East. Afterwards, Klein Halevi, a contributing editor and Israel correspondent for The New Republic addressed National Leadership Council members at the home of Bonnie Corwin Fuller.

Klein Halevi authored an Op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, "Bibi and Barack Can Unite on Iran-new government is an 'obstacle' only to unrealistic goals." Halevi commentates on the new Israeli government's foreign policy proclaiming, "Instead of continuing to pursue the unattainable, the American-Israeli approach should focus on creating a civil society in the West Bank that is an essential precondition for the ventual creation of a Palestinian State. READ ENTIRE OP-ED.