To examine how those issues interact with the shifting terrain of global geopolitics, it was launched by the Council on Foreign Relations in 1994, and established as an independent policy institute in 2006,[2] originally under the chairmanship of General (Ret.)
[5] Moving to the United States, Siegman studied and was ordained as an Orthodox Rabbi by Yeshiva Torah Vodaas.
He served as a United States Army chaplain in the Korean War, where he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart.
[8] He refers to Israel as a "de-facto apartheid" state and has said in 2012 and 2014 that, without substantial objective change, the "two-state solution is dead".
[18] Jeffrey Donovan, writing in Radio Free Europe, calls him "a leading U.S. expert on the Middle East".