Program Overview
- Hosts: Ray Suarez, Garrick Utley, Steve Roberts and Margaret Warner
- Original Airdate: Jan 2007
The American story in the Arab-Israeli conflict began in 1947 with the creation and then recognition of the Jewish state. Since then, the United States has been in some way involved in helping to resolve the conflicts between Israel and Palestine in hopes that it would help stabilize the region. The Bush Administration took a different approach: disengagement. America Abroad takes a deeper look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the different approaches to peace in the Middle East.
In segment one, Ray Suarez takes a deeper look at the importance of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and stability in the Middle East.
In segment two, Garrick Utley narrates an archival tour of the history of America’s role in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
In segment three, Steve Roberts looks back at the Oslo peace process from 1993 to the Camp David summit in 2000.
In the final segment, Margaret Warner explores the Clinton and Bush administrations’ differing approaches to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the American role in resolving it.
Guests on this program include:
Adam Garfinkle, editor of The American Interest
Josef Joffe, editor and publisher of Die Zeit
Rashid Khalidi, director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs
Hisham Melhem, Washington based correspondent for Al-Arabiya
Steven Spiegel, Director of the Middle East Regional Security Program at UCLA
Dennis Ross, principle Middle East negotiator under George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton
Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Israeli Foreign Minister
Saeb Erekat, former chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee
Robert Malley, Program Director for Middle East and North Africa at the International Crisis Group
David Makovsky, senior fellow and director of The Washington Institute's Project on the Middle East Peace Process
Edward Djerejian, director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University
Aaron Miller, public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center
