Michael Widlanski

MICHAEL WIDLANSKI, author of “Battle For Our Minds: Western Elites and the Terror Threat”

Segment One:

• American foreign policy’s history of disbelieving the promises of enemies because they seem so outlandish—Nazism, Communism, and now Islamism
• Dangers from the competing brands of radical Islam that have no regard for other religions or people they deem “less Muslim” or the “wrong type” of Muslim

Segment Two:

• Israel’s history of success when ignoring advice to leave Islamist terror groups alone
• What is Hezbollah?
• Information campaigns promoting the watered-down teaching of Arabic and Islamist history in many of the top US universities

Segment Three:

• Trouble for the Saudi state as it confronts jihad closer to home
• Dangers of the Obama Administration believing that the Muslim Brotherhood is the key to stopping Al Qaeda
• Attempts by Saudi Arabia and Qatar to focus the Muslim Brotherhood’s jihad aspirations away from those countries by bankrolling it

Segment Four:

• Obama’s historical severe treatment of Israel, and close relationship with Turkish Prime Minister (and now President-elect) Erdogan
• Israeli perspectives on where the US-Israel relationship stands
• Israeli and Jewish-American thoughts on Israel’s security and right to self-defense