Michael Scheuer writes:

On 25 March 2009, I participated in a “Doha Debate” held at Georgetown University under the auspices of the Qatar-Based Doha Foundation.  The Oxford Union-style question before the house was: “This house believes that it is time for the U.S. administration to get tough with Israel.“  The “no” team consisted of Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz and former Israeli foreign ministry adviser Dore Gold.  On the “yes” team were myself and Avraham Burg, a former speaker of Israel’s Knesset.  Each speaker made a 2-minute opening statement and then was question by the moderator, Tim Sebastian.  Thereafter, the debaters fielded questions from the audience for about an hour, and then the audience voted.  The “yes” team won 67-percent of the vote, the “no” team 33-percent.

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