Happy moment: Dr. Tawfik Hamid,Prof. Edward Luttwak and Nathan Sharansky during Adelson Institute's Counterinsurgency conference


Left to Right: Dr. Tawfik Hamid, Muslim reformer , renown strategist Prof. Edward Luttwak and Nathan Sharansky, former dissident, human rights activist and Israeli governemt minister and currently Chairman of the Adelson Institute of Strategic Studies in the Shalem Center of Jerusalem. Picture taken during Adelson Institute's December 2008 Conference: "“Twenty First Century Wars: Counterinsurgency and the Challenge of Global Terrorism.” Some two hundred members of the military, judiciary, media and political establishment attended the conference. Attendees included Lt. Col. John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security, co-author of the Army/USMC Counterinsurgency Field Manual, Middle East scholar Prof. Bernard Lewis, Noble prize winner Robert Aumann. For extended coverage and press cuttings on the Conference see


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