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What Israeli election results mean for the future of Israel, prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, and how the Obama administration handles the region.
Aaron David Miller, public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former advisor to six U.S. Secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotiations; author, most recently of "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace"
Amjad Atallah, co-director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation; former adviser to the Palestinian negotiating team in peace negotiations with Israel
Yossi Klein Halevi, Israel correspondent, "The New Republic;" senior fellow, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem; author, "At the Entrance to the Garden Of Eden: a Jew's Search for Hope with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land"
Clarence King was a famed explorer, scientist, and hero of late nineteenth century history. But the blue-eyed and fair-skinned King also led a secret double life passing as a black man. A historian examines the secret King only revealed on his deathbed to his black wife of thirteen years.
Martha Sandweiss, professor of history at Princeton University
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