Stephen P. Cohen:
is a specialist in Middle East policy. In 1979 he founded the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development and remains its President. He is the National Scholar of Israel Policy Forum and in the last years he has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and Lehigh University. He has pioneered behind the scenes efforts in bringing Arabs and Israelis together under the supervision of Chairman Arafat and Shimon Peres. He has been in confidential, off-the-record discussions with Syria's top leadership, most recently Bashaar el-Assad. He was the founding president of the Foundations of Charles Bronfman. He was the first President of S. Daniel Abraham's Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation. He was a partner with Lester Crown and Robert Lifton in the New Middle East LLC. Cohen was identified in a Wall Street Journal article as one of five sponsors of the Committee for the Republic. In 2001 Cohen co-wrote a briefing paper with Daniel Pipes who is the director of the Middle East Forum.

Doni Remba:
is Executive Director of the Jewish Alliance for Change, a nonprofit organization which promotes American Jewish participation in the political process and advocates for a progressive domestic and foreign policy agenda. Mr. Remba previously served as Executive Director of Ameinu, the U.S. affiliate of the Labor Zionist Organization, and co-founded and for six years served as President of Americans for Peace Now’s Chicago Region. He also served as Senior Foreign Press Translator and Editor in the Israel Prime Minister’s Office, from Egyptian President Sadat’s historic 1977 Jerusalem visit until the signing of the Camp David Peace Accords in 1978. He co-translated President Sadat’s historic Knesset speech into English for the world press.

Stewart Ain:
has been a professional journalist for more than 40 years. He has been a staff writer since 1990 for The New York Jewish Week, where his primary beats are the Middle East, Holocaust restitution, international affairs and Jewish philanthropy. For the past 15 years he has covered a wide variety of issues for the New York Times. Since 2003 he has been a weekly Middle East analyst on several radio and TV programs. For 25 years, he has been host and producer of the Cablevision television program Jewish Life. In 1997, Mr. Ain received a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his series of stories
exposing Swiss ties to the Nazis. It was his third Pulitzer Prize nomination. Ain has received numerous awards, including a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award and the Press Club's Freedom of the Press Award.