The Adelson Institute Conference on Terror

The Adelson Institute, affiliated with the Shalem center, held a conference today.

The conference was impressive, informative, stimulating and enjoyable. Here's the agenda.

It was impressive as regards the personalities taking part, including Benyamin Netanyahu:






and Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon



Informative as regards the insight, facts and background that was provided.

Stimulating as regards the questions posed by the audience and the answers.

One participant, Tawfik Hamid, said that one of the ways to respond to terror is to establish a settlement for every act of terror!!


Here's perhaps two-thirds of the audience and I didn't photograph perhaps a dozen Army intelligence officers who came:



Enjoyable as regards the company I found there and the food:





The Russian, Maj.-Gen. Dr. Vladimir Ovchinsky, former director of the Russian Section of the Interpol and advisor to his country's Constitutional Court basically told us the the best way to fight terror is to kill as many as possible and bomb everything else, civilians or not.

Col. (res.) Daniel Reisner, former head of the international law division in the military advocacy department, sounded good in dealing with the issue of international law but I felt he was being a chameleon, adapting himself to his audience. I later spoke with someone who worked with him and he confirmed that he is not friend of either Yesha or a firm anti-PA (Palestinian Authority) person.

Dr. Liam Fox, MP, Shadow Defence Secretary in the British opposition and former leader of the opposition was very forceful in urging a policy that would relegate considerations of the ideal of a liberal society behind the need for security.

And so on it went.

I hope a summary or more will be published.