Guests Mike Pregent, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute and Jonathan S. Tobin, Editor-in-chief, Jewish News Syndicate Download

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Mike Pregent is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. He is a senior Middle East analyst, a former adjunct lecturer for the College of International Security Affairs, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University.  Pregent is a former intelligence officer with over 28 years experience working security, terrorism, counter-insurgency, and policy issues in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southwest Asia. He is an expert in Middle East and North Africa political and security issues, counter-terrorism analysis, stakeholder communications, and strategic planning.  He holds a Masters in Strategic Public Relations from The George Washington University and is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Defense Language Institute in Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Dialect.

Mike is a free-lance writer for the The Wall Street Journal and a contributing writer to the Daily Beast and has numerous publications on ISIS, Iran’s Qods Force, and on Syria and Iraq. His writings have been published in Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy Magazine, The Tower Magazine, Long War Journal, New America Foundation, CNN, Al-Jazeera, Business Insider, and the Daily Beast.  He frequently appears as an expert analyst on Shia militias, Iran, Iraq, and ISIS with appearances on BBC World News, Al-Jazeera International, CNN, CNN International, and Fox News.

Jonathan S. Tobin is the editor in chief of the Jewish News Syndicate — JNS.org — and a Contributing Writer for National Review, the nations’ pre-eminent conservative magazine of opinion and ideas. He is also a columnist for the New York Post, The Federalist, Haaretz, Israel Hayom and the New York Jewish Week as well as writing for other publications such as the Washington Examiner and Commentary magazine. In his writing he covers on a daily basis the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy and the Jewish world.

Previous to this Mr. Tobin was executive editor and then senior online editor and chief political blogger for Commentary magazine. Prior to that he was editor in chief of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and before that the editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. His writing has also appeared in many other publications including the Jerusalem Post — where he wrote the “View From America” column for many years. He has won more than 50 awards for his writing including being named top columnist for Jewish publications eight times. He appears regularly on television commenting on politics in the United States and Israel, foreign policy and Jewish affairs.

Mr. Tobin was born in New York City, attended local schools and studied history at Columbia University.

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