[b]TVO - The Agenda with Steve Paikin - November 26, 2009: MUNK CENTRE SPECIAL: David, Goliath and [/b]

David, Goliath and the Goldstone Report. The Agenda: Live from the Munk Centre for International Studies.

[u]The Debate: David, Goliath and the Goldstone Report[/u]

An historic conflict in which both sides want to be the David and not the Goliath. Myth, reality, and the quest for peace in the Middle East.

[u]Guests:[/u]

[b]Janice Stein[/b] is TVO's Foreign Affairs analyst, the Belzberg professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto.

[b]Derek J. Penslar[/b] is the Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History at the University of Toronto. His areas of expertise include modern European Jewry, Zionism, and the state of Israel.

[b]Michael Lynk[/b] is Associate Dean, Academic and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, the University of Western Ontario. He joined the Faculty in 1999, and has taught labour, human rights, constitutional and administrative law.

[b]Craig Scott[/b] is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School as well as Director of York University's Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. Previously he was a member of the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He is editor of the book Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation.

[b]Jonathan Halevi[/b] serves as director of research for the Orient Research Group Ltd., a strategic and private information services company and as a senior researcher of the Middle East and Radical Islam at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs headed by former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Dr. Dore Gold.

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[b]Resources and links to related material[/b]

1) PBS - Bill Moyers Journal - October 23, 2009

[url=http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10232009/watch.html]JUSTICE RICHARD GOLDSTONE[/url]
Bill Moyers talks with Justice Richard Goldstone, who headed up the controversial UN Human Rights Council investigation into fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.

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