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Ziad J. Asali, M.D.
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President and Founder of the American Task Force on Palestine
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| Position: |
Pro Two-State Solution to the question "What are the solutions to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict?" |
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"Well, there has emerged, over the course of the past ten years at least, a sense that the only way out of the situation in the Middle East is to establish a State of Palestine alongside Israel so that there will be an end of conflict. There is no other solution to end the conflict in reality. There is an international consensus about it as reflected by the so-called Road Map Quartet [the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations], which is after all the whole world. You have the United States, you have Europe, you have the Russians and the United Nations, which is the whole world, and then there is the Arab League, which is twenty-two different states, and there is the previous Palestinian administration, and the Israeli administration, all of them committed to the two-state solution." Interview with Bernard Gwertzman of the Council on Foreign Relations
June 2, 2006
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Credibility
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Experts
Members of Congress, Ambassadors, Counsul Generals,
heads of government, members of legislative bodies, and Ph.D.'s with
significant involvement in, or related to, the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict.
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| Involvement: |
President and Founder of the American Task Force on Palestine
1982-present - Member of the Chairman's Council of American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), President (2001-2003)
2006 - Delegate with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) to monitor the Palestinian Legislative election
2005 - Served as a member of the United States official delegation to the funeral of Chairman Yasser Arafat and as a member of the United States official delegation to observe the Palestinian Presidential elections
1995-2003 - Chairman and co-Founder of the American Committee on Jerusalem (ACJ)
Frequently writes articles on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that are featured in Al Ahram Weekly, Washington Times, the Forward, Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, and The Daily Star
Television commentary and interviews for CNN, CBS, Charlie Rose, MSNBC, FOX News, BBC, C-Span, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, Al-Arabiya, Al-Hurra, Nile TV, ART, Egyptian TV, Abu Dhabi TV, and the Dubai satellite channel
Testified before the Senate on the issue of Palestinian education
Testified at a hearing before the full U.S. House Committee on International Relations on the topic of “The Way Forward in the Middle East Peace Process”
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| Education: |
M.D., American University of Beirut (AUB) Medical School, 1967
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Affiliations/
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Medical Director and Chairman of the Board at the Christian County Medical Clinic in Taylorville, Illinois
Served as Chairman of the Board of Physicians Health Association of Illinois before he retired in 2000
Diplomat of the Board of Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians
Named “Arab American of the Year” by the Arab American Community Center for Economic and Social Services (AACCESS) of Ohio in 2006
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Other:
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Select Publications:
“From Crusades to Zionism” (Pamphlet, 1993)
“Zionist Studies of the Crusades” (Pamphlet, 1992)
“Expedition to Jerusalem” (Pamphlet, 1990)
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