December 29, 2008

By Jerry Gordon, The Iconoclast

New English Review contributing Editor Jerry Gordon will be joining a radio interview panel to discuss the current IDF ‘Operation Cast Lead’ in Gaza. The panel discussion will be broadcast at 4:00PM CST (5:00PM EST) on Milton, Florida radio station WEBY-1330AM, a 25,000 Watt station that covers four Gulf Coast states with a wide listener audience in the region. You may listen to this special WEBY “Your Turn” program hosted by Kenneth Lamb at the station’s website ‘listen live’ streaming, here.

Among the topics to be discussed are:

· Military and Political objectives of IDF Gaza ‘Operation Cast Lead’

· implications for the upcoming Knesset General elections on February 10, 2009;

· impact on Middle East peace deliberations in light of the incoming Obama Administration in Washington;

· UN Security Council and EU statements vis a vis cessation of IDF operations in Gaza against Hamas;

· Continuing Palestinian Islamic Jihad and resistance Committee rocket attacks against Israeli population centers in the south of the Country and Western Negev;

· Dynamics of conflict between Hamas in Gaza versus the PLO-Fatah in the West Bank; and,

· Surprising division in the Arab world with support for Hamas, proxy of Iran and Syria.

Other invited panelists in this WEBY “Your Turn” radio forum include:

· Dan Diker, foreign affairs analyst, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs;

· Jonathan Schanzer, Jewish Policy Center, Washington, DC and author of “Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle For Palestine;”

· M.K. Arieh Eldad, Ha Tikvah party opposition leader;

· Ted Belman, Toronto, editor, Israpundit blog.