Journalist James Bennet

Fresh Air

Published December 19, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Journalist James Bennet of the New York Times. He’s the paper’s Jerusalem Bureau Chief. He’s been in the Middle East covering how the crisis there is affecting both Israelis and Palestinians.

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