This is crazy! The Hudson Institute is having a conference this week on the America-Israel relationship "at a crossroads… challenges to the special relationship" etc etc and look at the speaker list. It’s almost completely Jewish, starting with a bang, border-crossers Meyrav Wurmser and Michael Oren. I think Christopher Hitchens is in there as a nod to what, I don’t know. Hudson claims, "Our broad-based approach has, for decades, allowed us to present well-timed recommendations to leaders in government and business, domestically as well as abroad." Who are they kidding? Look at this speaker list. I mean, I love Dan Levy and Aaron David Miller, they will bring a breath of sanity to this fetid room; but do you think there might be some Arab-Americans represented? Or gentile-Americans? Wow, neoconservatism is like the energizer bunny. Cause it has money…
10:00 – 11:00 AM: Keynote Address: Ambassador Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the United States
Introduction: Meyrav Wurmser, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: "The War of Narratives: Do the Obama Administration and Israel Have Different Views of History?"
Christopher Hitchens, Contributing Editor and Columnist, Vanity Fair
Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Douglas Feith, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
Robert Lieber, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University
Daniel Levy, Senior Research Fellow, the New American Foundation
12:30 – 1:00 PM: Luncheon
1:00 – 2:30 PM: "The Battle to Define the ‘Pro-Israel Camp:’ Will the Current Crisis Split the American Jewish Community?"
Martin Peretz, Editor in Chief, The New Republic
Peter Beinart, Associate Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, J Street
Jay Lefkowitz, Senior Partner, Kirkland and Ellis
Gabriel Schoenfeld, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute and Former Senior Editor, Commentary
Tevi Troy, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
2:30 – 4:00 PM: "The Divergence of Peace and Security Policies?"
Ambassador Martin Indyk,Vice President for Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution
Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
David Wurmser, CEO, Delphi Global Analysis Group
Michael Makovsky,Foreign Policy Director, Bipartisan Policy Center
