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SUMMARY:The View from Lebanon
DESCRIPTION:The transcript is available here \nIn light of the recent dramatic events within Lebanon\, our webinar with Ratnadeep Chakraborty has been postponed until further notice. Tomorrow’s webinar will now feature Dr. Walid Phares\, an American scholar born in Beirut\, and a Middle East expert. \nDr. Phares will tell us what the view is from Lebanon\, how the various ethnic groups within Lebanon are regarding the demise of Hassan Nasrallah\, and most of the Radwan force\, whether Hezbollah has sufficient expertise within its ranks to replace those whom the IDF has eliminated\, whether Hezbollah has sufficient recruits to mount a challenging offensive to the IDF ground force which is posed to enter Lebanon. Will the IDF be able to meet its goals of making the Hezbollah retreat north of the Litani River? Can the Lebanese Armed Forces be a sufficient force to be able to curtail Hezbollah’s retreat south of the Litani River? Will it be necessary for Israeli forces to remain in this area for a temporary period? And if so\, how will the United States and the international community respond? \nAbout our Speaker: Dr. Walid Phares is an engaging and highly sought after Middle East and foreign policy expert and pacesetter\, often predicting trends and situations on the ground years before they occur. He has been a Fox News Terrorism Expert\, is now Newsmax Foreign Policy analyst and has appeared on world and national media\, including BBC\, CNN\, NBC\, France 24\, al Arabiya\, al Jazeera\, al Sharq\,  and has been widely published in many countries. He has co-launched two recent projects\, “Educate America” platform to help reform US education of the Middle East and counter disinformation in the classroom\, and “War and Freedom: Insights Talk” Podcast available on Yutoube\, \nHe has served as an advisor to the US Congress and the European Parliament and has also served as an advisor on foreign policy to former President Donald Trump and a national security senior advisor to presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012. Dr Phares is the only expert/author who predicted the Arab Spring a year before it occurred in his pacesetting book\, The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (Threshold\, a division of Simon and Shuster 2010). His book Future Jihad: Terrorist strategies has predicted the spread of the Jihadi ideology worldwide and his other book “The Lost Spring” has accurately predicted Iran and Jihadists strategies. His last book Iran An Imperialist Republic and US Policy (2003) has exposed the transaction between the Islamic regime and the US administration. \nDr Phares holds an extensive CV and noteworthy achievements in the fields of academia\, government strategies\, media and publishing critical advice on combatting terrorism and countering jihadi radicalization both stateside and abroad. \nHe holds a Ph.D in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Miami\, and a Political Science Degree from St Joseph University and a Law degree from the Lebanese University in Beirut and a Master in International Law from Universite’ Jean Moulin in Lyons\, France. \nDr Phares taught political science and Middle East studies at Florida Atlantic University between 1993 and 2004. Since 2006\, he taught Global Jihadi strategies at the National Defense University in Washington DC\, and was Vice President of BAU private university in Washington DC until 2018. Dr Phares lectures on campuses nationwide and internationally\, including at the US Intelligence University. He lectured at Georgetown University\, George Washington University\, American University\, Columbia\, University of Chicago\, Pepperdine\, Boston College\, Brandeis\, UC Berkley\, University of Colorado at Boulder\, Loyola New Orleans\, UC Santa Barbara\, and many others including Ecole Militaire of France in Paris. Dr Phares lectures also to various academic associations including the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa in Washington DC and Middle East American ethnic organizations. \nAfter having authored six books on Middle East politics and history (in Arabic) in the 1980s\, Dr Phares authored another seven in English stateside since the mid 1990s. His most important volumes were published after 9/11 starting with Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against America\, (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2005) and a critically acclaimed book that was ranked in the top ten books of the 2006 Foreign Affairs List. Future Jihad was read and cited by many members of Congress and the European Parliament. Dr Phares predicted the rise of jihadi urban networks and set forth strategies to counter them in the West and overseas. Dr Phares published two more books on global strategies: The War of Ideas (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2008) explaining the ideological indoctrination and The Confrontation a policy strategy book designed to isolate radicals. In 2014 he published The Lost Spring: Avoiding Catastrophes in US Foreign Policy. And last year Dr Phares published “The Choice” a comparative analysis of the Obama\, Trump and Biden agendas in world politics. \nMedia and colleagues alike\, rave about Phares’s hallmark book\, which predicted the Arab Spring a year before it occurred: The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (Simon and Shuster\, 2010). The book was endorsed by US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney\, and praised by many leading figures in Congress\, political circles and media on both sides of the Atlantic. \nFor almost two decades Dr Phares led seminars and trained analysts and officials at several US national security\, defense and counter terrorism agencies. He also addressed international officers from two dozens countries on terrorism and conflicts. \nDr Walid Phares is a native of Beirut\, Lebanon\, and immigrated to the United States in 1990. He speaks fluent Arabic and French as well as English. Prior to moving stateside\, Dr Phares was a student union leader\, a lawyer\, a publisher\, a university professor\, and founded a social-democratic party\, which he represented in several political coalitions.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-view-from-lebanon/
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SUMMARY:Iran\, Hamas\, Hezbollah and Beyond: Looking at 5785 with Clear Eyes
DESCRIPTION:Transcript is available here. \nThis past year has seen the longest war in Israel’s history. We have watched as Israel has tried to pick the pieces up from the tremendous and horrific devastation of October 7th. We marvel at the courage\, determination\, and resilience of the Israeli people\, and especially of the brave men and women of the IDF. Although a great deal of the Hamas infrastructure has been decimated\, and Israel\, with its well-executed maneuvers has knocked out much of Hezbollah’s infrastructure\, ground forces are entering Lebanon as we speak\, and there are still many challenges ahead. \nHow will Israel be able to maintain security over its northern border \, allowing its citizens to return to their homes in safety and security? How will it ensure that Hamas\, or a Hamas-like structure will not re-emerge within Gaza? How can Israel continue to fight on these fronts\, and eliminate the threats from within Judea and Samaria? Will Israel be able to attack the Iranian nuclear infrastructure\, or its oil bases? Can Israel depend on anyone\, other than itself\, to do the job? \nHere to answer these questions and more is General Amir Avivi. \nAbout Our Speaker: Brig. Gen. (Res.) Amir Avivi is the founder and chairman of Israel Defense Security Forum\, or Habithonistim. \nDuring his service\, Amir held a series of senior roles in the IDF\, including Deputy Comptroller of the Security Forces\, Director of the Office of the Chief of Staff\, Deputy Commander of the Gaza Division\, Commander of the Sagi Division\, Commander of Battalion 605 and Commander of the School of Combat Engineering.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/iran-hamas-hezbollah-and-beyond-looking-at-5785-with-clear-eyes/
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SUMMARY:U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges in a Dangerous World
DESCRIPTION:The transcript will be available here \nJust eight days before Hamas’ brutal invasion of Israel which resulted in 1200 Israelis butchered and 250 kidnapped to Gaza\, U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan ignorantly stated\, “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades now.” Had Sullivan been speaking during the Trump years\, there may have been some truth to that statement but since the Biden/Harris administration entered office\, the world has seen multiple wars (including in the Middle East between Israel and Iran and its proxies and in Europe for the first time since World War 2); global insecurity resembling that of earlier world wars; a new axis of evil in the form of Russia-China-Iran-North Korea; and our military being downgraded due to lack of funds\, a focus on woke policies that have weakened its personnel and priorities\, underperforming recruitment numbers\, and policies of appeasement of our enemies. Couple this with three and a half years of wide open borders through which terrorists have entered the country and America is facing very dangerous security problems requiring immense changes if we are to remain a safe and secure superpower that projects strength in order to keep peace. From Europe and the Middle East to Southeast Asia and the Sahel region of Africa\, America’s enemies are on the march. Join of for a discussion of the national security challenges that we face and what should be done to address these challenges with the brilliant and insightful Danielle Pletka\, foreign policy expert with the American Enterprise Institute. \nAbout our speaker: Danielle Pletka is a distinguished senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute\, where she focuses on the Middle East\, terrorism\, and US foreign policy. Until January 2020\, Ms. Pletka was the senior vice president of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at AEI. She teaches US foreign policy toward the Middle East at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and is a political analyst for NBC News. Before joining AEI\, Ms. Pletka was a senior professional staff member specializing in the Middle East and South Asia for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Ms. Pletka has authored\, coauthored\, and coedited a variety of studies\, monographs\, and book chapters and is a regular guest on television including appearing frequently on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” as well as on CBS News\, CNN\, C-SPAN\, and MSNBC. She has been published in The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, The Hill\, and Politico\, among other outlets. Ms. Pletka is also the cohost\, with AEI’s Marc Thiessen\, of the podcast “What the Hell Is Going On? (Making Sense of the World).”
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/u-s-foreign-policy-challenges-in-a-dangerous-world/
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SUMMARY:The Media\, Academia\, and International Community’s Cognitive War on Israel
DESCRIPTION:  \nTranscript will be available here \n  \nThe anti-Israel bias in the mainstream media\, at the UN and other international organizations\, and in academia is nothing new. What is\, however\, shocking\, is the portrayal of Israel and demonization of a country trying to survive after a barbaric invasion of its homeland that resulted in the greatest number of murdered Jews since the Holocaust\, that involved acts of aggression unimaginable in any civilized culture\, and in which 250 hostages were taken many of whom remain in captivity in horrific conditions. The massacre on October 7th isn’t a fantasy – the terrorists filmed their atrocities\, the civilian population in Gaza celebrated the terrorists’ accomplishments\, their leaders promised to repeat October 7th over and over again and yet\, Israel is portrayed as the aggressor by the world including by the Biden/Harris administration. The media – from al Jazeera and the BBC to Reuters and The New York Times are aiding and abetting the terrorists with lies and blood libels published as fact\, faculty and students across college campuses are cheering on the destruction of the Jewish homeland and attacking Jewish students\, and the UN\, ICC\, ICJ and EU are all accusing Israel of atrocities that are sheer fantasy. Here to help us break this down and understand what Israel is confronting in its cognitive war is the always insightful Alex Traiman\, CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief of the Jewish National Syndicate. \nAbout our speaker: Alex Traiman is CEO and Jerusalem Bureau Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate. A veteran Israeli journalist\, radio-show host\, documentary filmmaker and startup consultant\, he writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. He has conducted one-on-one interviews with Israeli officials\, among them Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\, whose recent speech to a joint session Congress he attended and covered. Other key figures include members of the Knesset\, government and War Cabinet. He has also interviewed U.S. senators\, congressmen\, ambassadors\, former CIA heads and national security advisers. He interviewed then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on an official visit to Jerusalem. He has appeared on the BBC\, Bloomberg\, CBS\, NBC\, FOX\, News Nation and Newsmax\, and is a frequent guest on WABC and CBS radio. An NCAA champion fencer in the Yeshiva University sports hall of fame\, he moved to Israel in 2004\, and lives in Jerusalem with his wife and five children.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-media-academia-and-international-communitys-cognitive-war-on-israel/
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