'Mutual Legitimacy' Key to Middle East Conflict - Michael Oren July 24, 2009

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/02/Michael_Oren_The_Future_of_Israel

Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the United States, explains why any Middle Eastern treaty must include the legitimate recognition of both Israel and Palestine. Oren says the conflict will only end with the "recognition of the legitimate existence of a Palestinian people...and the reciprocal recognition of a Jewish people."

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Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the United States, discusses the political conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians as part of the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival.

Oren approaches the subject both as a historian and as an American immigrant to Israel. - Aspen Institute

Michael B. Oren is the Israeli ambassador to the United States. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based research facility, where he specialized in the diplomatic and military history of the Middle East. He has written extensively for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic, of which he is a contributing editor. His latest book is Power, Faith, and Fantasy: American in the Middle East 1776 to the Present.