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Arieh O'Sullivan is an author, journalist and an award-winning defense correspondent who has covered Israel and the Middle East for over two decades. He currently serves as the Bureau Chief of The Media Line, a non-profit American news agency covering the Middle East. He is best known for his former role as a defense correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post, the Middle East’s leading English daily, where he worked for over 10 years. He appears as a guest commentator on a variety of world radio and television news programs and has reported from the Palestinian territories, Rwanda, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Turkey and China.

Career
Before joining The Jerusalem Post, O'Sullivan worked for seven years as a correspondent for The Associated Press based in Jerusalem and covered the peace processes, 1991 Gulf War, Palestinian unrest, the Rabin assassination, immigration from Ethiopia as well as the civil war in Rwanda. He was a Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University from 2002-2003.

O’Sullivan also served as Director of Communications for the Anti-Defamation League’s Israel office from 2006 – 2008.

Personal Life
O’Sullivan was raised in the US states of Louisiana and Mississippi and moved to Israel in 1981. He served as a paratrooper in the first Lebanon War and was discharged in 2008 from the reserves where he had served as a liaison officer with the Jordanian, Egyptian and other foreign militaries.

He has a BA in mass communications from the University of Minnesota.

Arieh is also a founding member of the ecological village of Li-On in the Elah Valley in central Israel where he lives with his wife and three children and grows olives for oil.