John F. Rothmann is a radio talk show host, author, and political and foreign policy consultant specializing in the United States, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. Rothmann was a talk show host on the A.B.C. affiliated KGO Newstalk 810 AM in San Francisco from 1996 to 2011. He can currently be heard filling in on KKSF 910 AM, a Clear Channel station in San Francisco. He has been involved in a broad variety of political campaigns on the national, state and local levels. He worked on the 1968 campaign staff of Richard Nixon and on the 1976 California Democratic Campaign of Senator Frank Church. He served as Chief of Staff to Senator Milton Marks and as Field Representative for Senator Quentin Kopp, both of San Francisco. In 1982 he was one of the founders and served as the first President of the Raoul Wallenberg Jewish Democratic Club. In 1993 Rothmann was elected as the President of the Laurel Heights Improvement Association, and continues to serve in that position. Read more...

Born in the United States, Gadi Adelman moved to Israel with his family while still at an early age. One month after his 14th birthday, after attending a rally in Jerusalem on November 13, 1975 a terrorist bomb was detonated on Jaffa Road, Jerusalem's main shopping street. Seven people were killed and 45 were injured. Those killed ranged in age from only 12 to 14. Gadi and a friend were only a few yards away and survived the blast.  Al Fatah's and the Martyr George Haddad Unit of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) fought over credit for the murders.  Although he walked away without a scratch, the terror incident near cafe Naveh that evening caused emotional scars that would last for many years to come. Gadi started to study everything he could find in both English and Hebrew on terrorism and its causes.  In 1981 when Gadi returned to the United States he applied at various law enforcement agencies with the hopes of specializing in counter terrorism. Read more...