Martin Sherman and David Pine debate a crucial question: Is it really possible for there to be a two state solution to the Middle East conflict?
Moderated by Rabbi David Wolpe
Thursday, July 15, 7:30pm at Sinai Temple
Martin Sherman is the 2009-2010 visiting Israeli Schusterman scholar at USC/HUC-JIR and the academic director of the Jerusalem Summit and
David Pine is the West Coast Regional Director of Americans for Peace Now
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MARTIN SHERMAN is currently the visiting Israeli Schusterman Scholar at USC and HUC. He the academic director of the Jerusalem Summit and research fellow in Security Studies Program at Tel Aviv University. He is also a research fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT).
Dr Sherman holds degrees in Physics and Geology (B.Sc.), Business Administration (MBA) and Political Science (Ph.D.).
He served for seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli intelligence community.
From 1990-91 he held the post of ministerial advisor to the Israeli government, and has testified as an expert before Joint Economic Committee of US Congress in a hearing on economic and security trends in the Middle East.
Dr. Sherman is a long standing director on the boards of several Israeli commercial companies.
His academic publications include two books, The Politics of Water in The Middle East, and Despots, Democrats and the Determinants of International Conflict, (Macmillan) as well as several articles in journals such as the Middle East Quarterly, The Journal of Strategic Studies, The Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, The Journal of Theoretical Politics, Nations and Nationalism, and Nationalism & Ethnic Politics.
He has also published numerous chapters in edited volumes and policy papers on a range of strategic and foreign policy issues. His latest work in this regard is the deals with strategic potential in Israel’s developing ties India – “The India-Israel Imperative” in the Indian National Interest Review.
He acted the Academic Coordinator of the internationally renowned Herzliya Conference in 2001 and 2002.
Dr. Sherman has appeared on numerous occasions on TV and radio both on Israeli and international networks and writes extensively on security political and economic issues in the Israeli national press in both English and Hebrew.
DAVID PINE is West Coast Regional Director of Americans for Peace Now (APN), an organization working to enhance Israel’s security through peace and to support Shalom Achshav, the Israeli Peace Now movement. In that capacity, he organizes community programs and activities that educate and activate the community in support of policies that help promote a comprehensive political settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict, including a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
Mr. Pine is a frequent public speaker and regularly represents the organization to government officials, community and religious groups, to the media, and in schools and on college campuses. He has authored articles and been interviewed for radio and television programs related to Israel and Middle East issues.
For more than twenty years, Mr. Pine has worked in Southern California and Washington, D.C. as a community and political organizer and fundraiser in the Jewish community, and on behalf of several political campaigns. He has lived in Israel for extended stretches of time, and during one period worked as an educator and community worker in a development town, and in an absorption center for Ethiopian immigrants.
Mr. Pine has a double Masters degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California, and Jewish Communal Service from Hebrew Union College, where he has served on its Field Faculty. He was an under-graduate at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Mr. Pine lives in the Los Angeles area, is married to Debbie Pine, a Social Worker, and has 3 children (Oren – 14, Alana – 11, Ari – 9).
