Dan Schueftan is the Director of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa (a Senior Lecturer at the School of Political Sciences), and at the IDF National Defense College. For the last three decades he has been a consultant to Israeli decision makers and to the top echelon of Israel's foreign policy and defense establishment. He has also been briefing decision makers and senior officials in the United States and Europe since the mid 1970s. Dr. Schueftan has published extensively on contemporary Middle Eastern history. His books cover a wide variety of topics: A Jordanian Option - Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians (1986); Attrition: Egypt's Post War Political Strategy 1967-1970 (1989); Disengagement - Israel and the Palestinian Entity (1999). Most recently: Palestinians in Israel - the Arab Minority and the Jewish State (2011).