Jerusalem Summit's Academic Director Lectures at Capitol Hill

JERUSALEM, April 15, 2010 - The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), working with
Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO), hosted Dr. Martin Sherman, (Academic
Director of the Jerusalem Summit and currently the Visiting Israeli
Shusterman Scholar at the University of Southern California and the Hebrew
Union College), for a Capitol Hill briefing reevaluating the Arab-Israel
"Peace Process." Congressman Lamborn and dozens of congressional staff from
various House and Senate offices were in attendance.

Jerusalem Summit (www.jerusalemsummit.org) is an
international think-tank seeking to develop moral and efficient strategies
against the twin dangers facing mankind: totalitarianism of the East, as
represented by radical Islam, and moral relativism of the West, aimed at
depriving cultures of their spiritual content. Jerusalem Summit is sponsored
primarily by an Israeli philanthropist Michael Cherney (Mikhail Chernoy).

Dr. Martin Sherman delivered a detailed power-point presentation citing a
mountain of evidence and quoting various Arab leaders and Left-leaning
Israeli politicians to demonstrate that the unworkable nature of the current
approach to the conflict has actually been widely recognized by Arab leaders
and by left-leaning Israeli politicians, many of whom still advocate the
policies that have led to the current dangerous morass. Indeed, many of these
quotes help illustrate that the proponents of the process once clearly
understood that Israel cannot afford to live with a hostile entity
established in Judea and Samaria, and that many of the Arab leaders who have
been involved in various stages of the conflict and of the "peace process"
see Palestinian nationalist aspirations as merely a tactical manoeuvre
designed to lead to the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel.

To quote Dr. Sherman:

"The Palestinians seem far more focused on annulling Jewish political
independence than attaining Palestinian political independence, far more
committed to deconstruction of the Jewish state than to construction of a
Palestinian one.

"In spite of almost universal international endorsement of their claims,
highly supportive international media coverage, decades of super power
patronage, enormous international financial aid, highly accommodative Israeli
regimes which not only acknowledged but identified with their claims….the
Palestinians have failed miserably in establishing any semblance of a stable,
productive self-governing society or producing any capable, credible, and
competent leadership likely to advance them along the path towards that
goal."

In a serious effort to shift the analytical and policy framework, Dr.
Sherman outlined a solution to the current stalemate that is beyond the
usual terms of discourse in the region. For more information:
www.jerusalemsummit.org

Jerusalem Summit contacts: svietka at jerusalemsummit.org, fax: +972-3-516-1078