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| Please take a moment to visit and log in at the subscriber area, and submit your city & country location. We will use this information in future to invite you to any events that we organize in your area. Dear Reader: Please join me on a visit to Israel on March 7-15, 2012. Heritage Study Programs, a leading tour company, has asked me to lead an informative, enjoyable, and inexpensive week. Our focus will be on my special interest – the 20 percent of Israel's population who are Muslim, often called Israeli Arabs. The trip will offer special insight into current problems. Are Israeli Arabs now Palestinians? How does Israel deal with this growing but alienated population to preserve its long-term welfare and survival? With current attention on other matters (U.S.-Israel relations, the Hamas-Fatah accord, Iranian nuclear weapons, and regional turmoil), this topic gets brushed aside. But when other problems have been resolved, Israel must deal with this population, one that Shin Bet calls a "genuine long-range danger to the Jewish character and very existence of the State of Israel." Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman questions its citizenship. I have called it Israel's "existential danger." Khaled Abu Toameh, the Jerusalem Post's distinguished West Bank and Gaza correspondent, will co-lead with me an unprecedented first-hand exploration of this and related subjects. The trip will include travels to key locations, informative meetings, and lively discussions. You will meet with Israeli-Arab leaders, academics and researchers, with intelligence, police, military officers, high government officials, policy makers and counterterrorism experts. We will participate in a conference at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center on Muslim attitudes toward Jerusalem. I hope you will come with me to Tel Aviv, Haifa, the Galilee, and Jerusalem. You will visit some of Israel's most renowned sites, including the Golan Heights, the Sea of Galilee, the Western Wall, and areas around the Temple Mount. Neither tour nor mission, this fact-finding expedition will challenge and change your understanding of Israel. Space is limited, for more information and an itinerary click here. Sincerely yours, Daniel Pipes
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