LIST OF RECENT PROGRAMS
August 2008: Interviews with Amichai Magen, former policy advisor to the
Attorney General of Israel, and
Israel Danziger, head of an organization that
trains Israeli civilians in how to defend themselves against terror attacks. Also,
coverage of an
Israel Independence Day celebration at Stanford University.
July 2008: An interview with Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes, founder of
the
Middle East Forum, and a talk by British journalist Melanie Phillips,
author of
"Londonistan".
June 2008: An interview with Israeli journalist Noam Bedein, director of the
Sderot Media Center, who lives in and reports from the rocket-ravaged city
of
Sderot in southern Israel, near the Gaza Strip.
May 2008: An examination of Israel's accomplishments, and its current
challenges, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its Declaration of
Independence. Included: vintage video from Israel's War of Independence.
With
Marty Wasserman and David Meir-Levi.
April 2008: An interview with Major General (res.) Uzi Dayan, former Deputy
Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Force, National Security Advisor to Prime
Ministers Barak and Sharon, and founder of the Tafnit Party, on Israel's
options in the Gaza Strip and the treatment of Israel's Arab population.
March 2008: A discussion of America's long term goals and interests in the
Middle East, and Israel's role in America's plans. With
Marty Wasserman and
David Meir-Levi.
February 2008: An interview with Joel Brinkley, Pulitzer Prize winning
foreign correspondent, former
Jerusalem bureau chief for the New York
Times
, author of a nationally syndicated weekly column on foreign affairs and
currently a professor of journalism at Stanford University, on the core issues
of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the way the conflict is being fought in the
media.
January 2008: An interview with Josef Joffe, editor/publisher of "Die Zeit",
Germany's largest weekly paper. Also a fellow at the
Hoover Institution and
a teacher of American foreign policy at Stanford, he discusses the Arab-Israeli
conflict and America's role in it
December 2007: An interview with Itamar Marcus, founder and director of
Palestinian Media Watch, an organization that monitors what Palestinian
leaders say to their own people in Arabic and translates it into English.
November 2007: A discussion of whether the idea of  "land for peace" as a
means of resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict has reached a dead end, and if so,
what are the possible alternative approaches. With
Marty Wasserman and
David Meir-Levi.
October 2007: How the Arab-Israeli conflict is being waged on American
college campuses. Guests are
Cinnamon Stillwell, Northern California
representative of
Campus Watch, which reviews and critiques Middle East
studies programs with the goal of improving them, and
Sue Maltiel, executive
director of
Hillel of Silicon Valley.
CLICK HERE FOR OLDER PROGRAMS

OTHER
WEBSITES
OF INTEREST
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Palestinian Media
Watch
Reports on what the
Palestinian media tells
its own people about
Jews and Israel.


Middle East Media
Research Institute
Translates Middle
East Arabic press
into English, showing
what Arab leaders
say to each other
about Israel and the
West.

HonestReporting.co
m
Watches the media
for false and
misleading reporting
against Israel, and
lets them know when
they've crossed the
line.

CAMERA  monitors
media reports on the
Mideast and brings
factual errors,
omissions and
distortions to the
attention of the news
agencies and public.

Debka.com
Insider news and
analysis from the
Middle East that you
won't see in the
mainstream media.

Arutz Sheva
Also known as Israel
National News,
features news and
commentary from an
authentic Jewish
perspective.

One Jerusalem
Chaired by Natan
Sharansky, this
group focuses on the
need to keep
Jerusalem as the
eternal and undivided
capital of the Jewish
nation.

StandWithUs.org
provides resources
for pro-Israel
advocacy

JihadWatch.org
Monitors jihadist
activity in both
Muslim and Western
countries

IRIS Provides
Information
Regarding Israel's
Security, especially in
light of the current
peace process.

IMRA, or
Independent Media
Review and Analysis,
looks at
developments in
Arab-Israeli relations.
DVDs of past shows are available at nominal cost.
Click here for details.

For comments or questions about this website, or about any of our programs, please write to
spotlight@deeperlook.net
Michael Oren
Israeli historian
and author of
"Power, Faith and
Fantasy"
Daniel Pipes
Mideast scholar
and founder and
director of Middle
East Forum
Ra'anan Gissin
Israeli security
analyst, former
chief media
advisor to PM Ariel
Sharon
Larry Diamond
Hoover Institution
scholar, served as
senior advisor to
provisional gov't
in Iraq
Nitsana Leitner
Director of Israel
Law Center,
which sues terror
organizations in
civilian courts
Khaled Abu
Toameh
Chief Palestinian
affairs writer for
the Jerusalem Post
David Gilbert
Middle East
journalist based
in Israel
Brigitte Gabriel
Lebanese
Christian, survivor
of  Lebanese civil
war, critic of Islam
Yuval Steinitz
Israeli Knesset
member (Likud),  
past chair Foreign
Affairs & Defense
Committee
Wafa Sultan
Syrian-American
psychologist who
has criticized
Islam in the Arab
media
Aryeh Green
Former advisor to
Natan Sharansky,
now promotes
accurate media
coverage of Israel
Itamar Marcus
Founder and
director of
Palestinian Media
Watch
 
Josef Joffe
Middle East
scholar, editor
and publisher of
German news
weekly "Die Zeit"
Uzi Dayan
IDF Maj. General,
Nat'l Security
Advisor to P.M.'s
Barak & Sharon,   
Tafnit Party leader
Noam Bedein
Israeli journalist
who lives in and
reports from the
rocket ravaged
city of Sderot
Israel Danziger
of Mishmeret
Yesha, which
trains Israelis in
self defense
against terrorists
Israel at 60
Celebrating Israel
Independence
Day at Stanford U,
with interviews of
student activists
 
"Spotlight on the Middle East"
is a cable TV show based in Palo Alto, CA
that takes a
deeper look at the Mideast conflict.
Below are some people who have appeared on the show.
Click on a name to see the video.

Viewing "Spotlight" in Palo Alto and nearby cities

"Spotlight on the Middle East" is a public access cable TV show produced at
the
Community Media Center in Palo Alto, California, it analyzes the
Arab-Israeli conflict from a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish perspective.

The program can be seen by cable subscribers on channel 27 in the towns
of Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton and Stanford.

We produce one program per month, which airs multiple times over the
following month.

The schedule is as follows (all times are Pacific time):

Sundays   8:30 am
Mondays   8:00 pm
Tuesdays  3:00 am AND 12:00 noon
Thursdays 6:00 pm
Fridays   1:00 am AND 10:00 am

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