alex ryvchin is born in kiev. he hails from australia produced a prominent speaker, writer media contributor on the arab-israeli conflict and he served as a spokesman for the sinus of the united kingdom and currently the director of public affairs at the executive council his book brings together some of the finest minds devoted to the arab-israeli conflict and reveals how the conflict of israel has shifted and become both a global and local war fought mostly in the corridors of power, the media, on campuses and i personally experienced it as well and every form that touches our lives and they'll hand over the floor to alex to give his remarks. think you all. >> thank you very much. thank you for that lovely introduction. it is a singular honor for me to be here in new york to launch my look at the auspices of the world jewish congress the helm of the diplomatic -- jewish people. to begin by thanking my beautiful wife vicki who's back in australia for allowing me to come here and launch this look with two young ch