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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded a rousing speech to a joint meeting of Congress. Now, his top spokesman Mark Regev sits down for an online interview with The Cable and CNN.com to answer questions submitted by readers via Twitter. Watch the interview streaming live here: www.cnn.com/live1  CNN’s Elise Labott (@eliselabottcnn) and your humble ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded a rousing speech to a joint meeting of Congress. Now, his top spokesman Mark Regev sits down for an online interview with The Cable and CNN.com to answer questions submitted by readers via Twitter.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded a rousing speech to a joint meeting of Congress. Now, his top spokesman Mark Regev sits down for an online interview with The Cable and CNN.com to answer questions submitted by readers via Twitter.

Watch the interview streaming live here: www.cnn.com/live1 

CNN’s Elise Labott (@eliselabottcnn) and your humble Cable guy (@joshrogin) will pose questions to Regev starting at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. CNN (@natlsecuritycnn) and Foreign Policy (@FP_Magazine) will choose from questions submitted by you through Twitter.

President Barack Obama‘s May 19 statement that the U.S. position on a final settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute should be based on 1967 borders with agreed land swaps ignited a diplomatic and media firestorm. Obama and Netanyahu held a two-hour meeting at the White House on Friday, after which Netanyahu said he was "encouraged," but differences between the two leaders still remain.

Regev has served as the prime minister’s spokesman since 2007. A career diplomat, his previous posts include spokesman of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), spokesman for the embassies of Israel in Washington and Beijing, and deputy chief of mission at the consulate general in Hong Kong. He has also served in the Jordan Division at the MFA in Jerusalem, and taught international relations and strategy at the Israel Defense Forces’ Staff College. 

Josh Rogin covers national security and foreign policy and writes the daily Web column The Cable. His column appears bi-weekly in the print edition of The Washington Post. He can be reached for comments or tips at josh.rogin@foreignpolicy.com.

Previously, Josh covered defense and foreign policy as a staff writer for Congressional Quarterly, writing extensively on Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, U.S.-Asia relations, defense budgeting and appropriations, and the defense lobbying and contracting industries. Prior to that, he covered military modernization, cyber warfare, space, and missile defense for Federal Computer Week Magazine. He has also served as Pentagon Staff Reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading daily newspaper, in its Washington, D.C., bureau, where he reported on U.S.-Japan relations, Chinese military modernization, the North Korean nuclear crisis, and more.

A graduate of George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, Josh lived in Yokohama, Japan, and studied at Tokyo's Sophia University. He speaks conversational Japanese and has reported from the region. He has also worked at the House International Relations Committee, the Embassy of Japan, and the Brookings Institution.

Josh's reporting has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, CBS, ABC, NPR, WTOP, and several other outlets. He was a 2008-2009 National Press Foundation's Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow, 2009 military reporting fellow with the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the 2011 recipient of the InterAction Award for Excellence in International Reporting. He hails from Philadelphia and lives in Washington, D.C. Twitter: @joshrogin

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