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SUMMARY:What is Happening on our Northern Border with Syria and Lebanon?
DESCRIPTION:The transcript will be available here\n\n\nOn Monday\, the United Nations Security Council started to debate a French Resolution extending the mandate of UNIFIL for approximately one more year. The UN Security Council is supposed to vote on this on August 25th\, approximately 5 days from now. UNIFIL was established in 1978 to patrol Lebanon’s southern border with Israel. How much has UNIFIL accomplished? Has it turned a blind eye as Hezbollah’s activities\, as well as its arsenal\, along Israel’s northern border has grown? \nAlso\, looking towards Syria\, the United Nations Human Rights Council is investigating the government of Ahmed al-Sharaa as being guilty of war crimes\, particularly against the Druze and the Alawite neighborhoods. What sort of policy can Israel embark upon with Syria to be able to give its citizens defensible borders? \n\nAs assurances have been made that Hezbollah will be disbanded in Lebanon\, and the Syrian government of Ahmed al-Sharaa has been charged with war crimes\, we are inviting Lieutenant Colonel Sarit Zehavi of the Alma Center in Israel to analyze and discuss how Israel can handle all of the myriad demands on its armed forces and how to best protect their civilian population.\nAbout Our Speaker: \nLieutenant Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi is the founder and president of Alma\, a nonprofit and an independent research and education center specializing in Israel’s security challenges on its northern border. Sarit has briefed hundreds of groups and forums\, ranging from US Senators\, Congressmen/women\, and politicians to senior journalists and visiting VIP groups in Israel and overseas. Sarit scripts numerous position papers and updates focusing on Lebanon\, Syria\, and Israel’s national security challenges. She served for 15 years in the Israeli Defense Forces\, specializing in military intelligence\, holds an M.A. in Middle East Studies from Ben-Gurion University\, and is also a member of Forum Devora\, promoting the equal representation of women in key decision-making positions in the fields of national security and foreign policy. Her unique achievements led her to be selected by the Jerusalem Post as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2021. \nSarit lives in the Western Galilee.
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SUMMARY:Concealing The Truth of What is Actually Happening in Gaza
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \n  \nFear of one’s very life at the hands of Hamas’ brutality is often the result of a journalist or a photographer filing an accurate report regarding what is going on in Gaza. Journalists  and photographers living and working throughout Gaza have learned to fear Hamas’ repressive and fatal consequences for telling the truth. When asked if one can trust a journalist to convey the truth\, one responded\, “Never. They will report what Hamas wants them to write; photograph the pictures Hamas seeks.” A journalist from the New York Times refused to publish photographs indicating evidence of her source receiving Hamas pay slips or being a member listed on Hamas rosters. A New York Times columnist this week accused Israel of “assassinating” Al Jazeera newsman Anas al-Sharif because “Israel is making sure there is no one to document the horror of its war.”  Journalists throughout the international community have come to rely on the inflated figures of the Gazan controlled Ministry of Health. \nCome learn what is truly happening behind the scenes in Gaza\, and how Hamas terrorists and thugs are in control of the information the media is using\, which has resulted in an erosion of international policy in support of Israel. \nAbout our Speaker: \nLenny Ben-David is a Research and Senior Diplomacy Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. He had worked for AIPC for 25 years\, in both Washington and Jerusalem. In 1997\, he left to open an independent consulting firm\, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tapped him to serve as Deputy Chief of Staff in Israel’s Washington Embassy. He is the author of the book American Interests in the Holy Land Revealed in Early Photographs\, and he is completing his next book\, Secrets of World War I in the Holy Land Revealed in Early Photographs
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SUMMARY:Lies and Empty Promises: How Abbas fooled the West into Recognition of a Palestinian State
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \nSeveral Western states\, once Israel’s allies\, intend to recognize a Palestinian state in September at the UN. These countries see this recognition as a final stamp of legitimacy to the Abbas-led Palestinian Authority and a punishment of Israel for its war in Gaza. In our conversation\, we ask: What was the lie that Abbas told French President Macron that was used to justify his call for recognition? Why should the Palestinian people\, even more than the PA\, be rejected for statehood? Why is a PA state bad for Israel and the West? And why the US and Israel should respond to the PA statehood farce by designating the PA as a terror organization. Itamar Marcus joins us to provide much-sought answers to all of these questions. \nAbout our Speaker: Itamar Marcus is Founder & Director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW)\, an Israeli research institute known internationally for its in-depth research of Palestinian society. He has presented PMW findings dozens of times in Congress\, parliaments and conferences. PMW’s reports led to the Taylor Force Act\, Israel’s “Deduction Law\,” and his report on the PA-ICC contacts led to the US imposing sanctions on the PA\, this past July. Itamar is a frequent guest on various international news networks\, and is the author of “Deception: Betraying the Peace Process” & “Teaching Terror to Tots”. He was recognized among the world’s “top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life or the State of Israel.” by Algemeiner.
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SUMMARY:Is the Collapse of the Iranian Regime Necessary for Regional Stability?
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \nOver the last several decades\, the Islamic Republic of Iran had established a “ring of fire” around Israel. With the sole exception of the Houthis in Yemen\, Israel has been able to eliminate a great deal of this existential threat. The Islamic Republic used their terror proxies to shield itself and to empower its strategic depth\, The biggest existential threat\, however\, emanates from the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran. During the 12-Day War of June 13th through 24th\, Israel and the United States were able to eliminate a great deal of the nuclear and the ballistic threat\, as well as the cult of hero-worship for Ayatollah Ali Khomeini. This is a grand departure from previous US administrations and their philosophy which served to de-escalate the status of Israel and to embolden the Islamic Republic. Iran is now is encountering a period of destabilization. How likely is it that the Islamic Republic will rebuild their nuclear enrichment and ballistic missile program\, which is a core value of the regime? Will their goals of the elimination of Israel remain unchanged? Where are the regime’s current vulnerabilities? What must Israel and the United States do in order to undermine the regime’s survivability and possibly lead to the collapse of the regime and replace it with a more palatable alternative? \nAbout our Speaker: Barak Seener is an Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and the founder of Strategic Intelligentia and the Gulf Futures Forum. Barak also co-hosts The Geo-Godfather Wars podcast on geopolitical affairs. Previously\, Barak was a Global Intelligence Manager at HSBC and the Middle East Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on whose behalf he has debriefed international defence and security policy makers and diplomats on matters relating to Middle East security. Barak has lectured at NATO as well as the Royal College for Defense Studies. He also staged the world’s first\, and hugely successful conference in London at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) on Palestinian statehood. This examined the security implications for the Region bringing together leading Israelis\, Palestinians\, US and European representatives in London. Prior to joining RUSI\, Barak was one of the Henry Jackson Society’s founders in Westminster and was the Henry Jackson Society’s Greater Middle East Section Director. \nBarak published a book in 2018 entitled\, ‘Commercial Risks Entering the Iranian Market: Why sanctions make investment in the Islamic Republic of Iran a high-risk proposition.’ \nBarak has published and provided analysis and expert commentary for a range of international broadcasters including Al-Jazeera\, BBC\, CNN\, Chinese CCTV\, Fox News\, Sky News\, Voice of America\, and news outlets such as Bloomberg\, Reuters\, Associated Press\, the Evening Standard\, Jerusalem Post and Xinhua. \nBarak has published in publications including Newsweek\, the National Interest\, the American Interest\, Jane’s Intelligence Review and Jane’s Islamic Affairs Analyst on counter-terrorism\, US-China dynamics\, risks to supply chains\, globalization and the end of the liberal international order\, transatlantic relations\, universal jurisdiction\, nuclear proliferation and Middle East issues including the Arab Spring\, tensions in Libya\, Egypt and Syria\, strategic and security dynamic between Iran and the Gulf\, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. \n 
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SUMMARY:The Temperature of the State of Israel as it Enters Rosh Hashanah\, 5786
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \n  \nAs Israel moves into Rosh Hashanah 5786\, there are internal and external pressures confronting the State. We will address the widening social\, political\, and ideological divides within Israeli society; current military developments—particularly the implications of recent escalation\, such as the strike in Doha—and how shifts in strategy influence prospects for a negotiated resolution. In addition\, the conversation will assess the growing international criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza\, the legal and moral debates surrounding the definition of genocide\, and whether diplomatic isolation or reputational concerns are contributing to an atmosphere of unease domestically. \nIn light of these developments\, this session will also explore how global antisemitism is evolving—whether heightened incidents abroad and reports of antipathy in academic\, cultural\, and political spheres are affecting collective morale and identity among Israelis. To what extent can civil society bridges survive under the strain of war and polarization? How do diasporic perceptions feed back into internal debates in Israel? What role might international law\, media narratives\, and diaspora activism play in either deepening divisions or fostering reconciliation? \nAbout our speaker: Avi Mayer is the founder of Jerusalem Journal and the immediate past Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post\, the most-read English-language newspaper in Israel and the leading news outlet in the Jewish world. With more than a quarter-million followers on X (formerly Twitter) and a monthly audience in the tens of millions\, Avi is considered one of the most prominent millennial voices in Israel and the Jewish world. \nIn 2013\, he was named one of the “Jewish 100”—the top one hundred people positively influencing Jewish life—along with then-U.S. President Barack Obama\, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\, and other leading figures. He has been named the third most influential person on ‘Jewish Twitter\,’ just behind Prime Minister Netanyahu\, and one of the most influential English-speaking immigrants in Israeli politics. He previously held leadership roles in some of the world’s leading Jewish organizations\, including serving as Managing Director of Global Communications and Public Affairs at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and as the international spokesperson of The Jewish Agency for Israel\, the largest Jewish organization in the world\, and of its then-Chairman\, Natan Sharansky. \nAvi has met with the President of the United States at the White House and he conducted the first newspaper interview with the Prime Minister of Israel after his election. He has addressed lawmakers in both the U.S. Congress and the Knesset\, Israel’s parliament\, on numerous occasions. He is regularly invited to discuss developments in Israel\, the Middle East\, and the Jewish world on international news networks and he and his work have been featured in some of the world’s leading publications. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Maryland\, he has worked for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs; the Embassy of Israel in Washington\, D.C.; Hillel International; and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He has served on the international boards of KAHAL\, an organization for Jewish students studying abroad around the world\, and ACCESS\, AJC’s young leadership program. Avi currently serves as Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of Global Jewry and is a member of the ROI Community. \nHe is a former participant in the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies’ Jewish communal leadership program. Born in New York and raised in Jerusalem and Maryland\, Avi served in the Israel Defense Forces as a spokesperson to the international media. He lives in Jerusalem. \n 
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-temperature-of-the-state-of-israel-as-it-enters-rosh-hashanah-5786/
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SUMMARY:The Road to October 7
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \n  \nJoin us on Tuesday\, Sept. 30\, at 12:00 noon for a special EMET Zoom webinar featuring the noted historian and author Dr. Rafael Medoff\, discussing his powerful new book\, The Road to October 7: Hamas\, the Holocaust\, and the Eternal War Against the Jews \nAbout Our Speaker: Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies\, in Washington\, D.C.\, and the author of more than 20 books about the Holocaust\, Zionism\, and American Jewish history. Dr. Medoff has taught Jewish history at Ohio State University\, Purchase College of the State University of New York\, Yeshiva University and elsewhere\, and he is a Fellow of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. He is also a three-time winner of the prestigious Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism\, from the American Jewish Press Association. \nMedoff’s textbook\, Jewish Americans and Political Participation: A Reference Handbook\, published by ABC-CLIO in 2002\, was named an “Outstanding Academic Title of 2002” by the American Library Association‘s Choice magazine. \nRafi has authored scores of scholarly texts and articles\, has successfully worked on several films about the Holocaust and has served as a consultant to Hollywood about the Holocaust.
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SUMMARY:The Status of Egypt in the Current Situation
DESCRIPTION:The transcript will be available here \n Our 20 remaining live hostages have finally been returned home. President Donald Trump spoke before the Knesset and was interrupted many times by standing ovations. Today we are triumphant that the hostages\, finally\, after two emotionally and physically brutal years will finally be returned to the loving arms of their families. \nStage I of the deal is over\, (although not all of the deceased have been returned for proper burials.) \nStage II awaits us. There will\, most likely\, be many bumps in the road. Hamas is not likely to give up its power without a fight. \nEgypt is one of the parties which had been tasked with mediating the dispute between the terrorist organization\, Hamas\, and Israel. The other two are Turkey and Qatar. \nTurkey\, under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan\, has made the most deplorable statements towards Israel\, just within this week. Without reference to the barbaric attacks of Hamas of October 7\, 2023\, Erdogan has accused Israel of “genocidal attacks on the Palestinians which are worse than Hitler’s”. He immediately praised the terrorist group Hamas for accepting Trump’s plan\, “clearly demonstrating its will for peace”\, and placing the entire burden of acceptance of the plan on Israel\, saying “peace is not a one-winged bird.” \nLikewise\, Qatar has been hosting Hamas officials in its capitol\, Doha\, since 2012\, and has been paying Hamas’ salaries in Gaza. It has provided a base for various Hamas leaders including  Khaled Mashal\, member of Hamas’ five-person leadership council; Khalil Al-Haya\,  the de facto leader of Hamas since the death of Yahya Sinwar in October 2024; and Mohammad Ishmael Darwich\, Chairman of the Hamas leadership council. Doha has been airing the highly antisemitic Al-Jazeera\, particularly its Arabic version\, that is aired throughout many regions of the world. \nEgypt has its own set of problems. It has allowed the construction of tunnels and of smuggling routes from inside Gaza to the Sinai Peninsula within Egypt. Within Sinai we have seen vast military maneuvers\, and between July 16th and August 25th\, there were 384 drone incursions from Egypt into Israel. \nToday\, and this entire week is a time for celebration. However\, \, one cannot help but be concerned if the results of this peace initiative  will endure for generations\, to come. \nHere to answer this is Dalia Ziada. \nAbout Our Speaker: Dalia Ziada\, Egyptian Scholar of Middle East Geopolitics and Washington Coordinator for the Institute of the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)\, is an Egyptian award-winning writer and political analyst specializing in governance\, geopolitics\, and regional security in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. Dalia studied international relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University\, majoring in international security studies. \nIn the past two decades\, Dalia held senior positions at regional and international think tanks and civil society organizations\, where she led projects\, advised policymakers\, and authored articles\, papers\, and books analyzing the geopolitical conflicts and power relations in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. \nSince April 2024\, Dalia has joined the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA) as a Senior Fellow for Research and Diplomacy on Arab-Israel-U.S. affairs. Meanwhile\, Dalia is working on a research project with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) on the threat of radical Islamism in the United States. \nSince May 2024\, Dalia has been roaming American university campuses\, in partnership with Hillel International and other esteemed non-partisan organizations\, to lecture on the changing geopolitics of the Middle East in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. \nDalia has earned several awards for the impact of her writing and activism. She has been globally recognized for her leading role as a civil rights activist in the Arab Spring revolutions of 2010-2011 and for her uncommon stance as an Arab Muslim intellectual against Hamas and in support of Israel following the October 7 attacks that Israel endured in 2023. Dalia has been active in the people-to-people Muslim-Jewish Dialogue and Arab-Israeli Dialogue for 16 years. She has also engaged in several political and cultural battles against political Islamists and radical Islamist groups in her homeland\, Egypt\, in Arab countries\, and in the United States. \nDalia authored the best-selling book “The Curious Case of the Three-Legged Wolf – Egypt: Military\, Islamism\, and Liberal Democracy” (2019) and other internationally acclaimed books dating back to 2006. Dalia’s next book project\, “The Coalition of Odds\,” explores the geopolitical and security structures of the new Middle East emerging from the regional reshuffle of power coalitions\, the impact of the Great Power Competition\, and the changing world order.
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SUMMARY:Hezbollah: Retraining\, Rearming and Rebooting
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nThe transcript will be available here \nHezbollah\, the radical Shiite political party and terrorist militia\, has been known as a “state within a state” in Lebanon since the fifteen-year Lebanese Civil War from 1975 through 1990. The over-riding conviction of the Iranian-backed terror proxy is its violent opposition to the existence of Israel and its rejection of Western values\, norms\, and influences of the Middle East. \nOn September 17\, 2024\, Israeli intelligence services planted explosives\, near the batteries of thousands of Hezbollah’s pagers. In what is referred to as “Operation Exploding Pager”\, these instruments exploded simultaneously throughout Lebanon and Syria. The following day\, hundreds of walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah also exploded. On September 27\, 2024\, the Hezbollah leader\, Hassan Nasrallah\, was killed by a strike by the Israeli air force over Dahiya\, a suburb of Beirut and a Hezbollah strong hold. \nMeanwhile however\, Hezbollah has been retrenching itself in southern Lebanon. On Saturday\, November 1st\, the IDF struck a vehicle with four Hezbollah Radwan terrorists inside. According to the Jerusalem Post\, the commander of these forces were attempting to re-establish the Hezbollah infrastructure and the transfer of weapons on the ground in southern Lebanon \nAt the same time\, Iran has been developing a proxy network of Hezbollah bases in neighboring Iraq\, aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-l Quds force\, that can launch long-range missile and drone attacks toward Israel. \nWestern officials have recently said that “Hezbollah is rebuilding faster than the Lebanese government is dismantling them.” \nAbout Our Speaker: Lieutenant Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi is the founder and president of Alma\, a nonprofit and an independent research and education center specializing in Israel’s security challenges on its northern border. Sarit has briefed hundreds of groups and forums\, ranging from US Senators\, Congressmen/women\, and politicians to senior journalists and visiting VIP groups in Israel and overseas. Sarit scripts numerous position papers and updates focusing on Lebanon\, Syria\, and Israel’s national security challenges. She served for 15 years in the Israeli Defense Forces\, specializing in military intelligence\, holds an M.A. in Middle East Studies from Ben-Gurion University\, and is also a member of Forum Devora\, promoting the equal representation of women in key decision-making positions in the fields of national security and foreign policy. Her unique achievements led her to be selected by the Jerusalem Post as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2021. Sarit lives in the Western Galilee with her family.
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SUMMARY:The Rise of Antisemitism within the United States
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \nFor perhaps the first time in our history\, the Jewish community in the United States is feeling besieged by unprecedented attacks on both the extreme left\, and the extreme right. The Jewish community of New York City\, the largest community of Jews outside of Israel\, is feeling frightened\, abandoned and confused. Tucker Carlson has given the white supremacist\, and Holocaust-denier\, Nick Fuentes a welcome embrace\, and Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation had uncritically defended Tucker Carlson. This has led to several resignations within Heritage\, and\, after a week of outrage\, a later apology from Kevin Roberts. There is also a growing isolationist trend within republican politics.  We are seeing a civil war within the right. \nHowever\, that right-wing “civil war” pales in comparison to the woke embrace of radical left-wing socialists who are sympathetic to radical Islamists on the left. The recent mayoral election in New York of Zohran Mamdani has us greatly alarmed. Mr. Mamdani has made inflammatory statements regarding the state of Israel\, calling what is happening in Gaza a “genocide”. While a student at Bowdoin College\, he formed an alliance with the radical left-wing Jewish group J Street and subsequently shut the alliance down.  He has made deftly-crafted  statements such as\, “My support for BDS is consistent with the core of my politics\, which is nonviolence. And I think that it is a legitimate movement when you are seeking to find compliance with international law.” He is attempting to threaten the partnership of Cornell and the Technion in Haifa\, and has vowed to “arrest” Prime Minister Netanyahu\, if he even lands in New York. Based on interviews in the New York Times\, his words represent the views of thousands of Muslims throughout the United States. \nIn August of 1790\, President George Washington wrote a letter to the congregation of Newport\, Rhode Island\, saying “May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants—while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid.” \nAre we\, Jews of America\, still feeling that same sense of “safety” today? \nHere to discuss this is Eric Mandel.  \nAbout our Speaker: Dr. Eric Mandel is the founder and Director of MEPIN™\, the Middle East Political Information Network™. MEPIN is a Middle East research analysis read by members of Congress\, their foreign policy advisors\, journalists\, think tanks\, foreign officials\, and organizational leaders. \nHe regularly briefs members of Congress and their staffs about the current geopolitical situation in the Middle East and how it affects American national security interests. \nHe is the Senior Security Editor of the Jerusalem Report / Jerusalem Post\, writing about Iran\, Lebanon\, Jordan\, Egypt\, the Gulf States\, Turkey\, Kurdistan\, the US-Israel relationship\, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict\, and Syria. His work appears in The Hill\, National Interest\, RealClearWorld\, ABC News\, the Forward\, JNS\, i24\, Rudow (Iraq)\, IsraelNationalNews\, JTA\, Algemeiner\, Israel Hayom\, Thinc.\, Defense News\, and other publications.
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SUMMARY:Is Israel's Qualitative Military Edge Eroding?
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe transcript will be available here \n  \nThis week\, Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman\, amidst much pageantry and fanfare\, visited President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. What was promised to Riyadh was two squadrons of F 35 jets\, a joint civil nuclear energy program and nearly 300 tanks. Meanwhile\, despite assurances from Lebanese President Joseph Auon that Hezbollah would be disabled\, there have been no demonstrable signs of that. On November 10th\, President Trump also met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa\, the first time a Syrian President has visited the White House. President Trump had described the former al-Quada leader as a “ young\, attractive guy-tough guy with a strong past.” Only months ago\, there was a $10 million bounty on his head. On November 6th\, exactly 4 days before the Trump-al Sharaa meeting\, the United Nations lifted all sanctions against al-Sharaa. Meanwhile\, in defiance of their international commitments\, Iran has thrown out the International Atomic Energy Administration inspectors. \nWhat is going on in the Middle East today\, and what is happening to the US legal obligation that Israel always maintains a Qualitative Military Edge? \nAbout Our Speaker: Hazem Alghabra\, born in Damascus Syria\, is the founder and president of Frontiers Consultants\, a Washington DC-based consultancy firm that provides public relations and crisis management solutions with a focus on the Middle East and the United States. Prior to starting his firm\, Alghabra held multiple positions with the U.S. Department of State including senior advisor for public affairs at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. Alghabra provides daily insight and analysis as a commentator on a vast array of television stations including i24\, Keshet\, Alarabyia\, Sky News\, BBC\, and Alsharq-Bloomberg.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/is-israels-qualitative-military-edge-eroding/
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SUMMARY:As We Approach Phase Two of President Trump’s Plan\, What is in Store for Israel and the Middle East?
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \n  \nAs we approach phase two of President Trump’s Plan\, does Hamas have any plans to disarm\, which is one of the President’s conditions for proceeding further? Looking north\, will President Joseph Aoun\, as promised to dismantle the Hezbollah infrastructure? What is happening with Egypt’s commitments made in 1979 to dismantle its military force in the Sinai\, and why have they smuggled weapons into Gaza? Why is Jordan participated in the smuggling of Weapons into Judea and Samaria\, the West Bank? Is Ahmed al Sharaa capable of making an enduring peace with Israel? Where are we on our relationship with Saudi Arabia? \n  \nHere to discuss this\, and much more is David Wurmser. \n  \nAbout our Speaker: David Wurmser is a Senior Middle East Analyst for the Center for Security Policy\, and is a member of EMET’s Board of Advisors. He served as Middle East Adviser to former US Vice President Dick Cheney\, as special assistant to John R. Bolton at the State Department and as a research fellow on the Middle East at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He served in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer at the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He has written many widely acclaimed books and papers\, such as the 1996 report A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm\, a paper prepared for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. This advocated pre-emptive strikes against Iran and Syria\, the removal of Saddam Hussein from Iraq and the abandonment of traditional “land for peace” negotiations with Palestinians. \nIn 1999\, Wurmser wrote Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein (published by AEI Press)\, which argued that President Clinton’s policies in Iraq were failing to contain the country. \nIn 2000\, Wurmser helped draft a document entitled “Ending Syria’s Occupation of Lebanon: The US Role?”\, which called for a confrontation with the regime in Damascus. The document said that Syria was developing “weapons of mass destruction”.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/as-we-approach-phase-two-of-president-trumps-plan-what-is-in-store-for-israel-and-the-middle-east/
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SUMMARY:On the Present and Future of Warfare from Gaza to Lebanon to Tehran
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here.  \nAlthough many Americans\, surrounded by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans\, Canda and Mexico\, have grown used to living in peaceful times\, the Middle East is vastly different than that\, where vengeful grievances from centuries prior are being played out in today’s battlefields. How\, from the point of view of a retired British Army office and research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society\, is Israel fairing with the wars on several of her fronts? How\, compared to other wars fought in densely packed urban settings\, is Israel doing in Gaza? Will Hamas enter Phase Two of President Trump’s negotiations. Is Hezbollah regrouping and rebuilding? How is Ahmed al -Sharaa handling his Druze\, Alawite\, Christian and Kurdish populations? Does he still have eyes of the Golan Heights and why have the Turkish armed forces been welcome into Syria? Why is Egypt building up in the Sinai\, and how soon will it be before Israel will have to re-attack Iran? \nAbout our Speaker: Andrew Fox served in the British Army from 2005 to 2021\, completing three tours in Afghanistan\, including one attached to the US Army Special Forces. He served in the Parachute Regiment and the Special Forces Support Group\, with additional tours in Bosnia\, the Middle East\, and Northern Ireland. \nAfter his active service\, he spent three years as a senior lecturer in the War Studies and Behavioural Science departments at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Andrew specializes in defense\, the Middle East\, and disinformation. He holds degrees in Law & Politics\, Modern War Studies\, and Psychology. \nHis extensive experience has established him as a recognised authority in his field and he provides regular commentary on defence and foreign policy across the media including articles in the New York Post\, the Telegraph and Spiked. He has amassed a large following across his digital platforms\, including X (formerly Twitter) and Substack\, where he writes on disinformation\, defence and security as stories develop.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/on-the-present-and-future-of-warfare-from-gaza-to-lebanon-to-tehran/
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SUMMARY:Dalia Ziada and Her Struggle Against the Muslim Brotherhood
DESCRIPTION:The transcript will be available here \nOn October 7th\, 2023\,  Egyptian-born Dalia Ziada summoned up the courage to honestly and objectively discuss the atrocities that befell the Israeli people\, and supported Israel’s right to defend itself. Because of this\,  the attorney-general had summoned her to the notorious Supreme State Security Prosecution to investigate her for committing the crime of “high treason\, and for “threatening Egypt’s national interests.” Since coming to the United States\, she  endured countless personal attacks\, which led her to the belief that antisemitism and hate is “not just local; it is transnational.” \nCome hear the story of a courageous national hero\, what she has learned about Islamist networks in the West and how they operate\, and the price that she has personally had to pay for this.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/dalia-ziada-and-her-struggle-against-the-muslim-brotherhood/
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SUMMARY:The View from the Israeli North with Lt. Col. Sarit Zehavi
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here  \n  \nWhy must Israel maintain control of the Golan Heights\, which the US recognized as sovereign Israeli territory on March 25\, 2019?  What is the IDF doing inside of Syria\, and how is it protecting against further Hezbollah penetration into Lebanon? How is Hezbollah and the vastly metastasizing Shiite presence in Lebanon getting its funding for its armaments?  What is the “Al-Qard Al-Hassan” and how is it involved in Hezbollah’s operations in Israel’s north? Can the Lebanese government shut down this nefarious operation? \nHere to answer all of these questions and more\, is Lieutenant Colonel Sarit Zahavi. \nAbout our Speaker:  \nLieutenant Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi is the founder and president of Alma\, a nonprofit and an independent research and education center specializing in Israel’s security challenges on its northern border. Sarit has briefed hundreds of groups and forums\, ranging from US Senators\, Congressmen/women\, and politicians to senior journalists and visiting VIP groups in Israel and overseas. Sarit scripts numerous position papers and updates focusing on Lebanon\, Syria\, and Israel’s national security challenges. She served for 15 years in the Israeli Defense Forces\, specializing in military intelligence\, holds an M.A. in Middle East Studies from Ben-Gurion University\, and is also a member of Forum Devora\, promoting the equal representation of women in key decision-making positions in the fields of national security and foreign policy. Her unique achievements led her to be selected by the Jerusalem Post as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2021. \nSarit lives in the Western Galilee.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-view-from-the-israeli-north-with-lt-col-sarit-zehavi/
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SUMMARY:Protests Reverberate Across Iran
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \n  \nThroughout Iran\, workers are on strike. The stock market has closed down. University students in Tehran are revolting in the streets. Protests have broken out throughout almost every major province and city. The IRGC and thugs of the Revolutionary Guard Corps have begun shooting the protesters. \nIs this the beginning of the end of the Islamic Republic of Iran? \n  \nAbout our speaker: Behnam Ben Taleblu is senior director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy’s Iran Program\, where he oversees the breadth and depth of FDD’s work on Iran in addition to serving as a senior fellow specializing in Iranian security and political issues. For well over a decade\, Behnam has supported FDD’s Iran program as a senior fellow\, research fellow\, and senior Iran analyst. Prior to his time at FDD\, Behnam worked on non-proliferation issues at an arms control think tank in Washington. \nLeveraging his subject-matter expertise and native Persian-language skills\, Behnam closely tracks a wide range of Iran-related functional and regional topics including nuclear non-proliferation\, ballistic missiles and drones\, sanctions\, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies\, the foreign and security policy of the Islamic Republic\, and internal Iranian politics. Frequently called upon to brief journalists\, congressional staff\, diplomatic\, military\, academic\, and policy audiences in Washington\, across the United States\, and around the world\, Behnam has testified before various committees in the U.S. Congress\, the Canadian Parliament\, and the UK House of Commons. \nBehnam’s analysis has been quoted in The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Reuters\, Fox News\, Associated Press\, Agence France-Presse\, Politico\, and Axios\, among others. Additionally\, he has contributed to or coauthored articles for The Wall Street Journal\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, Politico Europe\, Fox News\, The Hill\, War on the Rocks\, Newsweek\, and The National Interest. Behnam has appeared on a variety of broadcast programs\, including PBS Newshour\, BBC News\, Fox News\, CNN International\, CBS News\, C-SPAN\, France 24\, and Deutsche Welle. \nBehnam earned his M.A. with honors in international relations from The University of Chicago\, and his B.A. in international affairs and Middle East studies from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Behnam is also a member of the Anti-Defamation League’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities and a contributing editor to National Security Journal.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/protests-reverberate-across-iran/
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SUMMARY:What is Happening in Iran\, Today
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here.  \nAs protesters are rocking the streets throughout the Islamic Republic of Iran\, are the IRGC  and the Basij going to become more repressive? How many protesters are willing to put their lives on the line? Will Reza Pahlavi return to office? Is Erdogan waiting in the wings for a Sunni-Shia confrontation?? What will become of Stage II of the Gaza withdrawal? Is Egypt going to intervene in Gaza? And how will President Trump’s actions in Venezuela affect the Middle Eastern map? \nHere to answer these questions and more is Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University. \nAbout Our Speaker \nLt.-Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar is a distinguished professor of  Arabic & Middle East literature and culture at Israel’s Bar Ilan University and a research associate at the University’s Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies.  Dr. Kedar is a 25-year veteran of IDF Military Intelligence. \nDr. Kedar is a sought-after lecturer in Israel and abroad and his extensive experience on intelligence\, counterterrorism and Arab and Middle East affairs coupled with his charisma and intelligence makes every encounter fascinating and his geo-strategic analysis captivating. Dr. Kedar has frequently appeared on Israel’s television news networks as well as the Arabic-language Al Jazeera television network.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/what-is-happening-in-iran-today/
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SUMMARY:How has The Islamic Republic Gotten to This Place?
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \nBy now\, we all know that thousands of courageous protesters have been murdered by the fierce forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The government has successfully blocked the internet and phone calls out of the country\, so it is impossible to know any approximate number. We also know that these protesters came armed with nothing more than their voices\, their passion and their bodies\, while the Islamic Republic armed the IRGC\, the thugs of the Basij\, their army and their police with lethal weapons. This has amounted to the largest mass uprising since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. \nWe also know that after President Trump had posted on Truth Social “Iranian Patriots\, keep protesting…take over your institutions!!! Help is on its way”\, Trump has suddenly changed his mind. He has now said that “The killing has stopped.” \nWhy is that? How have we gotten to this point? What is the history behind the Islamic Revolution? What did President Carter say and do? What did President Obama say and do? Why do we sometimes see footage of scores upon scores of bodies laid out in row after row on our cellphones? Which Arab allies have spoken to President Trump\, and what are they actually after? Is it still possible to retrieve a democracy\, or even a benign monarchy in Iran? \nAt the end of the day\, which side of history is the United States on? \nAnd finally: We often hear about what the United States offers Israel\, but isn’t this a two-way street? What does Israel offer the United States for our survival\, in the West? \nIn order to answer these questions and more\, we are delighted to welcome back to an EMET webinar\, Ambassador Yoram Ettinger. \n About our  Speaker: Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger is an insider on US-Israel relations\, the Islamic Republic of Iran\, Mideast politics\, and overseas investments in Israel’s high tech.  He is a member of the American-Israel Demographic Research Group (AIDRG)\, which has documented dramatic flaws behind demographic fatalism on one hand and a Jewish demographic momentum on the other hand. \nHe is a consultant to members of Israel’s Cabinet and Knesset\, and regularly briefs US legislators and their staff on Israel’s contribution to vital US interests\, on the root causes of international terrorism and other issues of bilateral concern. \nAmbassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger’s OpEds have been published in Israel and in the US\, and he is frequently interviewed on Israel’s and the US’ TV and radio. \nAmbassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger – who did his graduate studies at UCLA and undergraduate at the University of Texas El Paso\, and has served as Minister for Congressional Affairs at Israel’s Embassy in Washington (with the rank of an Ambassador)\, Israel’s Consul General in Houston and Director of Israel’s Government Press Office.  He is the editor of Straight From The Jerusalem Cloakroom and Boardroom newsletters on issues of national security and overseas investments in Israel’s high-tech.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/how-has-the-islamic-republic-gotten-to-this-place/
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SUMMARY:The Tragic Plight of the Kurds
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here  \n  \nThe Kurds\, a people who span parts of southeastern Turkey\,  northwestern Iran\, northern Iraq and northeastern Syria have an old expression\, “We have no other friends but the mountains.”  The Kurds have been remarkable allies of the United States against ISIS. They were there\, many time without any US or foreign backup\, killing and dying ISIS members in order to defeat the Islamic States. When Mark Sykes and  Charles Georges Picot prepared a draft agreement after World War I\, preparing borders for new states\, there was no attention given to minority groups\, such as the Kurds. When the war against ISIS was fully waging\, EMET worked very closely with the Kurdish people\, from 2016 on\, representing the Syrian Democratic Forces or the noble and courageous Peshmerga. \nToday\, we are looking at a new Syria\, where a former member of the Sunni jihadist group\, Hay ‘at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is ruling the country. Ahmad al-Sharaa\, or Mahammed al-Julani is determined to set an authoritarian\, Sunni Islamist regime in all of Syria\, with the assistance of Turkey. . What does this mean for the beleaguered Kurdish forces\, as well as the Druzes and Alawites and the Christians. What does this tell us abut the price of US alliance and friendship? \nDiliman Abdulkader is the Director of the American Friends of Kurdistan. He will answer why our envoy\, Thomas Barrack and  President  Donald Trump have “turned a blind eye” to Ahmad al-Sharaa’s swift takeover of the Kurdish controlled region of northwestern Syria\, and what is portend for the future of minorities throughout the Middle East\, as well as of the cost of being loyal to the United States. \nAbout our speaker: Diliman Abdulkader is the founder of American Friends of Kurdistan (AFK)\, an advocacy and education organization established to strengthen\, protect\, and promote U.S.-Kurdish relations. AFK supports policies that advance the national security and prosperity of Americans\, Kurds\, and our other allies. Diliman comes from a foreign policy and national security background\, where he invests his time on Capitol Hill educating lawmakers and staffers about the plight of the Kurds. Diliman received his M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University in Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-tragic-plight-of-the-kurds/
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SUMMARY:What is Happening Right Now Inside the Islamic Republic of Iran?
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here. \n  \nAs I write these words\,  negotiators between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have just begun in Oman over their nuclear program. Yet\, beginning on December 28\, 2025\, millions of protesters have poured into the streets in over 400 cities throughout Iran. One of the immediate reasons was that the rial has been profoundly devalued. Today it is approximately 42 thousand rials per dollar. Iranians are also suffering a tremendous water drought. They turn on the tap\, and nothing comes out.  However\, what most of the Iranians want  desperately are their basic human rights and freedoms. Yet the huge tidal wave for a counter-revolution on the streets of Iran has been met with unparalleled\, brutal force.  According to the National Union of Democracy in Iran\, at least 40\,000 protesters have been left murdered on the streets\, crying out for the very freedoms we cherish in the United States. \nIf the United States fails to act\, will this simply serve to embolden and further empower the Islamist Republic and all of the terror proxies throughout the region? Will this forever be a black stain on America’s moral legacy? How might this serve to empower Hezbollah\, Hamas\, and the Houthis? \n\nAbout our Speaker: Khosro Isfahani is NUFDI’s research director. He is a journalist and open-source investigator working on all things Iran with a focus on human rights\, security\, and armed forces. \nBetween 2009 and 2021\, he worked in Iran as a frontline human rights defender in addition to his journalism work\, delivering rapid aid to at-risk communities while documenting human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed by the Islamic Republic. While in Iran\, he directly and indirectly worked with international media\, human rights groups\, and the United Nations. \nKhosro left Iran in 2021 for a position at BBC Monitoring\, where he was a lead analyst and reporter on Iran until 2023. At BBCM\, he covered state killings and violence against protesters\, along with military and security developments linked to Iran. \nIn 2023\, he moved to the United States for a teaching position at Colby College in Maine\, where he served as a professor and the human rights fellow with the Oak Institute and taught two courses on human rights and the modern history of Iran. \nAfter his time at Colby\, Khosro joined the Atlantic Council in 2024\, leading the organization’s open-source investigation of human rights and international law violations committed by individuals within and linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran. His work with the Atlantic Council included in-depth investigations and publications with the University of Berkeley Human Rights Center and UCLA’s Promise Institute. \nKhosro’s work has been published by various media outlets and American think tanks\, including Atlantic Council’s IranSource\, BBC World Service\, BBC Monitoring\, Slate\, and Financial Tribune\, along with rights groups such as Article 19. He has also contributed to the United Nations’ reporting on Iran. \nHis work includes reporting on social movements in Iran as well as state violence against protestors and persecution of marginalized communities. As an analyst\, he tracks the Islamic Republic of Iran’s regional ambitions\, military activity\, and arms development; nuclear program; domestic\, security\, and foreign policy\, along with war crimes committed by the regime and its proxies.
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SUMMARY:Israel 2048: A Blueprint for a Rising Asymmetric Geopolitical Power
DESCRIPTION:The transcript will be available here.  \n  \nWhat does the state of Israel require to survive? In previous decades\, the Israeli national security and defense establishments had assumed that status quo management was all that it took. Post October 7th\, 2023\,  we have come to realize that defensive restraint and geostrategic risk no longer serve Israel’s interests. However\, power projection across the Middle East\, combined with technological primacy\, should be at the core of a new technological golden triangle. Beyond that\, the core mission of the Israeli civilization is to adopt a multidimensional approach as a spiritual anchor of not only Judeo-Christian and the Judeo-Islamic identity\, which involves\, as a first step\, articulating a Jewish civilizational national mission. Alongside this\, Israel requires a national strategy that integrates deterrence\, diplomacy\, technology\, and economic policy with a military doctrine  that adheres to sustained action against emerging military and national security threats. \nA new study aims to jolt Israel’s security and technology establishment into embracing a new post-Oct. 7\, 2023\, business model that will advance the U.S.-Israel strategic partnership in the heart of the Middle East and across the globe. \nThe Henry Jackson Society study titled “Israel 2048: A Blueprint for a Rising Asymmetric Geopolitical Power” jumps into the future\, with a view toward advancing American and Israeli security interests. \nRead more with Fox News here. \nAbout our Speakers: \n Barak M. Seener is an Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and the founder of Strategic Intelligentsia and the Gulf Futures Forum. Barak has also co-hosted the Geo-Godfather Wars Podcast on geopolitical affairs. Prior to that\, Barak was a Global Intelligence Manager at HSBC and the Middle East Fellow at the Royal United Service Institute. Barak has staged the world’s first and highly successful conference in London on Palestinian statehood. He has published a book in 2018 entitled\, “Commercial Risks Entering the Iranian Market: Why Sanctions make Investment in the Islamic Republic of Iran a High-Risk Proposition.” Barak has published and provided analysis to Al-Jazeera\, BBC\, CNN\, Chinese CCTV\, Fox New\, Sky News\, Voice of America\, and news outlets such as Bloomberg\, Reuters\, Associated Press\, The Evening Standard\, Newsweek\, The National Interest\, The American Interest\, and Jane’s Islamic Affair Analyst. \nDavid Wurmser is the executive and founding member of the Delphi Global Analysis Group\, LLC. Dr. Wurmser served as senior advisor to the US National Security Advisor\, Ambassador John Bolton\, from December 2018 until September 2019.  He has also served from 2003 to 2007 as senior advisor to Vice-President Richard Cheney. Dr. Wurmser is also a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Foreign and Security Affairs in Israel and at the Center for Security Policy in Washington\, DC. His diplomatic positions have included participating in high-level strategic discussions with Israel and Jordan\, coordinating with foreign governments on Iran policy\, participating with the US negotiating team at several Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty meetings and conferences\, and helping to negotiate basic rights in key countries\, such as Qatar\, prior to the 2003 Iraq War. Dr. Wurmser also founded the Middle East Studies Program at the American Enterprise Institute. Dr. Wurmser published “Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein”\, (which the New Yorker called “the intellectual framework for President Bush’s freedom strategy in the Middle East.”  He has published over 35 articles in major periodicals\, including The Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, and Commentary. Dr. Wurmser’s military service includes 11 years of intelligence experience in the US Navy Reserves\, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/israel-2048-a-blueprint-for-a-rising-asymmetric-geopolitical-power/
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SUMMARY:The New Middle East as We Know It
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \n  \nAs the United States and Israel have waged war against the Islamic Republic of Iran\, we are watching the Sunni Arab nations joining in on the coalition. As early as February 28 2026\, \, the Islamic Republic has launched missile and drone attacks against all six Gulf Cooperation Council Countries—the United Arab Emirates (UAE)\, Bahrain\, Saudi Arabia\, Oman\, Qatar\, and Kuwait—retaliating against joint US and Israeli strikes. What had been struck was the Ras Tanura oil refinery in Saudi Arabia\, the Navy’s Fifth Fleet and the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Bahrain\, the Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait\, as well as the Kuwaiti International Airport\, the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar\, and the Port of Daqm in Oman. \nIs his the beginning of a new alliance in the Gulf? How long will this endure? \nHere to answer these questions and more is Dalia Zaida. \nAbout our Speaker: Dalia Ziada was born in Cairo\, Egypt. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father was a  Lieutenant  Colonel Engineer in the Egyptian Armed Forces. Dalia authored “The Curious Case of the Three-Legged Wolf – Egypt: Military\, Islamism\, and Liberal Democracy”. Dalia studied international diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tuft University. Dalia was instrumental in the uprising that initiated the 2011 revolution against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. Dalia had been named by CNN as one of the eight agents of change in the Middle East and by The Daily Beast as “one of the most fearless women in the world” for two years in a row. During the war between Israel and Gaza\, Dalia voiced strong support for Israel. Unfortunately\, this led to a strong backlash in her native Egypt\, resulting in threats to her safety and to her life\, along with accusations of espionage and incitement of war crimes. Dalia argued that Israel’s response to Hamas’ barbaric attacks\, aimed at dislodging the Islamist terrorist organization\, Hamas\, and securing the release of hostages\, was justified\, on Israel’s part. Because of this\, Dalia was forced into hiding\, and she sought refuge within the United States.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-new-middle-east-as-we-know-it/
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SUMMARY:The Internal Kurdish Resistance against the Regime
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here.  \nAs the possibility of the war with Iran widens\, President Trump has called upon Iran’s domestic opposition to generate onslaughts against the Islamic regime. President Donald Trump has offered “ extensive air coverage” to Iranian Kurds and other forms of support to defeat the regime. President Trump is calling on Iraqi Kurds to open the way for Iranian Kurds\, ant not to obstruct them on their path. As Bafel Talabani\, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan relates about a phone call with President Trump\,  “Trump was clear in his call. He told us the Kurds must choose a side in this battle — either with America and Israel or with Iran.”  Another faction of the Kurds is led by Masoud Barzani of the Kurdish Democratic  Party. He had said that “It’s not about who has more active armed militias. It ‘s about who has more support from the inside.” A statement from another Kurdish party read\, “All Iranian Kurds must abandon their bases and with draw support from the regime’s armed and repressive forces.” \nOn Thursday\, the Iraqi Kurds reported attacks on their “political bases and headquarters” and a number of fatalities. They later  called Iran’s attack on their bases in Northwestern Iraq a sign of Iranian “weakness and deep fear.”  The Iraqi Kurds are substantially more organized than the Iranian Kurds. The statement from the Iraqi Kurds read that “the coalition will strengthen our resolve to continue to fight for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran.” \nIt has also been rumored that the CIA might provide training and weapons for an internal military exercise against the regime. \nHere to shed light on all of this is Diliman Abdulkader. \nAbout our speaker: Diliman Abdulkader is the founder of American Friends of Kurdistan (AFK)\, an advocacy and education organization established to strengthen\, protect\, and promote U.S.-Kurdish relations. AFK supports policies that advance the national security and prosperity of Americans\, Kurds\, and our other allies. Diliman comes from a foreign policy and national security background\, where he invests his time on Capitol Hill educating lawmakers and staffers about the plight of the Kurds. Diliman received his M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University in Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-internal-kurdish-resistance-against-the-regime/
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SUMMARY:An Update on Israel’s and America’s Objectives in the War
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here. \nHow are American and Israeli objectives on this war aligned? What are the points of difference? Will\, President Trump\, with one eye on oil prices and another on the mid-term elections cut this war short? Will that enable the Islamic Republic to continue it malevolent activities throughout the region\, and the world? \nHere to answer these questions is General Amir Avivi. \nAbout Our Speaker: Amir Avivi was born 16 April 1969. He is a retired Israeli brigadier general at Israeli Defense Forces. He served as a military lieutenant at the Defense Establishment Comptroller Unit\, he was the commander of the Sagi Brigade and the chief of staff for Israeli general and politician Moshe Ya’alon. \nIn 2020\, he founded the NPO “Habithonistim” which consists of mainly high-ranking members of the Israeli security forces\, and has been its leader ever since. Too\, he is the chairman of the Israel Defense and Security Forum (IDSF). \nIn May 2023\, Avivi’s book No Retreat: How to Secure Israel for Generations to Come (ות) was published.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/an-update-on-israels-and-americas-objectives-on-the-war/
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SUMMARY:What is Happening in Lebanon\, Today?
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here.  \n  \nWe knew it would be a matter of time before Iranian-backed Hezbollah would start attacking Israel. Hezbollah\, answering direct commands of its terror-masters out of Tehran\, has been lobbing missiles across their southern border into Israel’s northern communities. Israel\, in response to this\, has been pounding Beirut and Lebanon’s southern suburbs\, where most of the Shia and Hezbollah population reside. Israel\, in their customary fashion\, has warned the population to move north of the Litani River. \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.
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SUMMARY:Webinar with The American International Druze Public Affairs Council
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here.  \nEMET Welcomes Formation of American International Druze Public Affairs Council (AIDPAC) \nThe Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) formally extends its welcome to our new partners at the American International Druze Public Affairs Council (AIDPAC). We congratulate our Druze friends\, among them former Israeli Minister of Communications Ayob Kara\, on the formation of their new organization. \nNearly a century after the formation of the Jews-Druze covenant\, we continue to see just how unbreakable the bond between our people truly is. Over the past two years\, many young Israeli Druze men have been at the forefront of our never-ending effort to defend the State of Israel and ensure its place in the world. Many of them have made the ultimate sacrifice\, and Israelis and allies of Israel are forever indebted to them. However\, this partnership goes well beyond military service\, as Druze Israelis play prominent roles in Israeli social\, cultural\, educational\, legal and commercial life. \nAt the same time\, we’ve seen Druze communities in other parts of the Middle East\, and particularly in Syria\, suffer unprecedented levels of violence. Last summer\, Syrian government-aligned forces descended upon Druze villages in Al-Suwayda and massacred over a thousand members of the community in just a couple of days. This behavior by the Syrian government is the most horrifying example in a pattern of targeting of ethnic and religious minorities in Syria\, which continues to this day. We’re proud to support the Israeli response to these atrocities\, and share the State of Israel’s commitment to protecting the Syrian Druze – our brothers’ brothers. \nThis is a time of great risk and peril in the Middle East\, but also that of great opportunity. For over two years\, Israel has been fighting an existential war for its place among the nations. At the same time\, this is a real chance to reshape the Middle East and ensure a more secure\, peaceful and prosperous future. In this context\, a force that tells the unique story of the Druze\, as well as advocating for recognition of their inalienable rights\, is needed more than ever. We’re proud to support AIDPAC in taking on this important task.
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SUMMARY:Celebrating Israel’s Birthday while Fighting Iran- A Zionist Reckoning…Or Resurgence?
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here. \n  \nThe Hebrew Calendar is punctuated with  very meaningful moments dedicated to those who have survived and who have perished in the Holocaust; to those courageous  soldiers who have sacrificed their very lives to sustain the state of Israel; and to all those who have committed and worked to be able to celebrate the gift of the return to the homeland of the state of Israel\, making it a vibrant and dynamic society. \nGil Troy\, is the author of 18 magnificent books\, from the recently published “The Essential Guide to October 7th  and its Aftermath” to “The Essential Guide to Zionism\, Anti-Zionism\, Anti-Semitism and Jew Hatred”\,  to“Resist the Intifada” to a three volume guide on “The Writings of Theordore Herzl” to “Never Alone” written by Gil Troy and Natan Sharansky\, to  “Moynihan’s Moment” to many biographies of Bill Clinton\, Hillary Rodham Clinton\, to Ronald Reagan\, to “Why I am a Zionist”. He has also written scores and scores of articles for The Jerusalem Post and The Daily Beast. \nGil went to Harvard College\, where he obtained his Bachelor’s Degree\, Master’s Degree and Ph.D Degree. Gil is an American presidential historian and Zionist activist. He is a senior fellow in Zionist Jewish though at the Jewish People Policy Institute. He is a professor of history at McGill University\, but now spends most of his time in Jerusalem. \nPlease meet the author who wrote\, “My fellow Israelis and Americans\, hang tough. We’re winning. But defeating evil takes toughness and patience.” \nThese words are like a salve for what Israel and the Jewish people have been enduring in the last two years. \nYou will have the opportunity to hear this powerful speaker on Thursday April 23rd at 12 noon. Kindly register.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/celebrating-israels-birthday-while-fighting-iran-a-zionist-reckoningor-resurgence/
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SUMMARY:A New 5 Point Plan for Fighting Antisemitism on the Ground and in the Courts
DESCRIPTION:The transcript will be available here.  \nProfessor Jeffrey Lax is the Founder and Chairman of S.A.F.E. Campus\, (@_safecampus) a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating antisemitism in academic environments. He is a seasoned legal analyst and recognized authority on campus antisemitism\, frequently providing expert commentary across prominent news platforms such as CBS\, NBC\, Fox News\, Newsmax\, Court TV\, Law & Crime\, and Scripps. \nIn addition to his leadership at S.A.F.E. Campus\, Professor Lax is a Professor of Law and Chair of the Business Department at Kingsborough Community College\, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. His expertise in legal matters\, coupled with his extensive media presence\, makes him a highly sought after voice in addressing antisemitism and advocating for policy reforms. Professor Lax’s work has garnered the attention of policy makers\, educators\, and donors alike. As a grandchild of four Holocaust survivors\, Professor Lax is deeply and personally committed to ensuring the safety of Jews on college campuses and throughout greater society. \nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreylax/ \n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbyy4yf_Jig \nhttps://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/conversation-with-jeffrey-lax \n\nAbout
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/a-new-5-point-plan-for-fighting-antisemitism-on-the-ground-and-in-the-courts/
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