Daniel Pipes

Michael Oren

Yuval Steinitz

Nitsana Leitner

Itamar Marcus

Daniel Pipes
Mideast scholar and founder and director of Middle East Forum

Michael Oren
Israeli historian and author of "Power, Faith and Fantasy"

Yuval Steinitz
Israeli Knesset member (Likud), past chair Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee

Nitsana Leitner
Director of Israel Law Center, which sues terror organizations in civilian courts

Itamar Marcus
Founder  and director of Palestinian Media Watch

Khaled Abu Toameh

Larry Diamond

Uzi Dayan

Ra'anan Gissin

David Gilbert

Khaled Abu Toameh
Chief Palestinian Affairs writer for the Jerusalem Post

Larry Diamond
Hoover Institution scholar, served as senior advisor to provisional gov't in Iraq

Uzi Dayan
Major General in the IDF,  National Security Advisor to Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon

Ra'anan Gissin
Israeli security analyst, former chief media advisor to PM Ariel Sharon

David Gilbert
Middle East journalist based in Israel

Aryeh Green

Josef Joffe

Israel Danziger

Brigitte Gabriel

Israel At 60

Aryeh Green
Former advisor to Natan Sharansky, now promotes accurate media coverage of Israel

Josef Joffe
Middle East scholar, editor and publisher of German news weekly "Die Zeit"

Israel Danziger
Head of Mishmeret Yesha, whch trains Israelis in self defense against terrorists

Brigitte Gabriel
Lebanese Christian, survivor of Lebanese civil war, critic of Islam

Israel at 60
Celebrating Israel Independence Day at Stanford U, with interviews of student activists

“Spotlight on the Middle East” was a cable TV series produced by a group of friends in Palo Alto California from 2005 to 2008.

The goal was to take a deeper look at the many conflicts in the Middle East, particularly those involving Israel, and try to understand the driving forces behind them.

Martin Wasserman was the main host of the program, and some of his interviews have been preserved on this website. Click on a picture or a name to see the interview.

Click here for information about some of the other people involved in the program