May 9 - The President Evolves; Netanyahu's New Coalition and the Palestinians; Russia's Revolving Door of Repression

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Then we examine the new coalition government Prime Minister Netanyahu has formed in Israel and get an analysis from Jennifer Loewenstein who teaches Middle East Studies at the University of Wisconsin and Gabriel Piterberg, a professor of Middle East History at UCLA. We discuss what this new Likud/Kadima coalition government will bring to the Israel/Palestinian stalemate and what impact it is likely to have on Israel’s foreign policy.

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Then finally we speak with British historian Robert Service, a professor of History at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St Anthony’s College, Oxford. He served as an expert witness in the recent trial between the two Russian oligarchs Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich and has written about the recent demonstrations in Russia in the New York Times. Robert Service is the author of a new book “Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution”.