Israel-Hamas War
with
Nahum Barnea
Acclaimed Israeli Journalist
Moderated by
Judith Miller
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter
Tuesday, November 7th, 4:00-5:00 pm ET On Zoom
Prominent Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea joins Pulitzer-winning journalist Judith Miller at The Common Good for an urgent and critical session on the events in the Middle East prompted by Hamas’ shockingly savage attack on Israeli citizens and followed now by Israel’s unrelenting strikes on Gaza, home to millions of Palestinians, in the effort to eradicate Hamas.
Nahum Barnea is widely regarded as one of Israel’s top columnists and political analysts. As Tom Friedman has put it, "When I need the most accurate analysis about Israel, the first call I always make is to my longtime friend and reporting partner there, To lead the conversation, we are honored to have Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Judith Miller, who has covered the Middle East for decades.
Join us for important insights into where this incredibly devastating and complex series of events unfolding in the Middle East may lead.
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About Our Speakers
Nahum Barnea is a prominent Israeli journalist and commentator whose columns have much influence in Israel and on key issues in the public policy arena. Since 1989, he has been the chief columnist of Yedioth Ahronoth, the biggest daily newspaper in Israel.
He has won numerous awards for his journalistic efforts. In 2007, he won the State of Israel, Israel Prize, an award regarded as the Israel’s highest cultural honor and for excellence in their field. He was awarded the Sokolov Prize for journalism in 1981 and in a survey in 1998, he was voted one of most influential journalists in Israel. He also received an award Tel Aviv University for his unique contribution to journalism in Israel.
In 2006 he was one of the few reporters who went into Lebanon during the second Lebanon war. His call to the government of Israel to accept the ceasefire, based on what he has seen on the ground had a tremendous influence.
He has served at The International Crisis Group as a Trustee since July 2010 and is an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution published his essay, “Backchannel: Bush, Sharon and The Uses of Unilateralism.” He also served in the IDF in the paratroopers brigade.
Judith Miller is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter who has covered the Middle East for decades. During her 28 years at The New York Times, she was a key member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for its 2001 coverage of global terrorism before and after the September 11th attacks. She was also apart of The New York Times team that won the prestigious DuPont award for a series of programs on terrorism for PBS's "Frontline.”
In 2008, she joined Fox News as a commentator, speaking on terrorism and other national security issues in, the Middle East, American foreign policy, and the need to strike a delicate balance between protecting both national security and civil liberties in a post-9/11 world. She is currently an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of its magazine, "City Journal."
Miller is a recipient of many awards, among them the Society of Professional Journalists’ “First Amendment Award” for her protection of sources. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on a prestigious National Academy of Sciences panel examining how best to expand of the work of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program, which since 1991 has sought to stop the spread of WMD material and expertise from the former Soviet Union.
A Message from the common good:
We are in a moment where we will tread carefully. As an organization dedicated to informing our audience and understanding and mitigating hatred, political violence, and division, we have presented a number of guests warning about the rise in hate and attacks by race, sexual orientation, and religion, including anti-semitism. We will attempt to bring briefings that go beyond headline news to help illuminate the complexity of the issues before us. We hope this will be one of many such programs.
