Archive for January, 2010

Yesterday (January 27), former member of Congress– and CNI co-founder– Paul Findley was so excited about the news that the McDermott-Ellison letter over Gaza had gathered the signatures of 54 members of Congress that he called CNI/CNIF Executive Director Helena Cobban to share his excitement and discuss the implications of this development.
Gaining 54 signatures on [...]

Our guest on the “CNI: Jerusalem Calling” internet-radio show on January 28th will be Israeli journalist and author Akiva Eldar.  Eldar’s cutting-edge political commentary and analysis can be read in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz (where is also an editorial writer) and in the Japanese daily Mainichi Shimbun.
Eldar has made a specialty of studying the intricate [...]

By Helena Cobban, Executive Director, CNI/CNIF
In late October, 2009, the Council for the National Interest Foundation sent a ten-person citizen team co-led by Amb. Jack Matlock and myself on a 16-day “Political Pilgrimage” tour that took us to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, Egypt, and Gaza.
This account of our trip is built around [...]

Washington DC, January 6– The boards of directors of Partners for Peace and the Council for the National Interest Foundation are delighted to announce that at the end of December 2009, the two organizations merged and henceforth Partners for Peace will operate as “A project of the CNI Foundation.”
Jerri Bird, founder and President of Partners [...]

Our guest on the “CNI: Jerusalem Calling” internet-radio show on January 7th will be Rami G. Khouri, the acclaimed columnist and analyst of Middle east affairs.
Khouri, a Palestinian-Jordanian and U.S. citizen, is director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut.  He was executive editor of the Daily Star [...]