Passed away when he was 84 years old, stockbroker and born in israel and he loved biking in central park. According to his paid obituary and loves everything from new york city except for the new york times. It appeared in the new york times. His son says his father did not believe the times provided honest and objective reporting. It shows him with the Washington Post and having a good chuckle. Last week i was in washington, d. C. Where i met a big fan of this program, michael hayden. If you are a fan of this program as well, you are in good company. He told me he watches news watch every week. Thanks to judy, jim, cal and ellen. We will see you again next week. Deadline to avert deep budget cuts is come and gone and after weeks of dire warnings. President has signed an order authorizing the u. S. Governmental to cut billions of dollars from federal accounts, failure setting off a furious round of the blame game between president obama and a great many congressional republicans. Im gr
allies are very concerned about iran s increasing influence in the region and lack of push back that the coalition participates in. there is a giant middle ground between plain talks and muscular military intervention. think the allies are hungry for real power. heather: we only have 60 seconds left. israel and palestinian stein? your that solving the issue is not a prerequisite to managing the broader region. we have post-arab spring and hopefully that will be the focus and not get into a trap in trying to negotiate a israeli and palestinian piece. egypt and several other countries are in a state of unrest right now. thank you very much. gregg: dangerous and uncertain world out there. that is going to do it for us.
mr. bard presents the argument in his book. author mitchell bard argues while the israel lobby is charged with overly influencing the united states foreign policy goals in the middle east, the real power lies with the arab lobby. he presents his book at the skirball cultural center in los angeles. thank you for making this possible and all of you for braving the traffic here. i lived here for awhile and i can sympathize, but now i live in washington which also has bad traffic. it s nice to get a warm introduction. to be honest when you speak as much as i do, you can t always be sure though. one person introduced me said i don t have to make a long and boring speech because we have mitchell bard here for that purpose. [laughter] just to give you an idea of what a genius here before you tonight, one recent event, i was speaking and getting ready to come to the event and was getting dressed and pulling on my pants, and as i did, i realized they were more snug than usual, and