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SUMMARY:Why Foreign Policy Matters in the Midterms
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker: Morgan Ortega is the Founder of POLARIS National Security. She is an active U.S. Navy Reserve Officer and a business executive. During the Trump Administration\, she served at the Department of State as the Spokesperson for the United States of America. \nAt the State Department\, she worked closely with the White House on the historic Abraham Accords that brought the first ever peace deals between Israel and UAE\, Bahrain\, and Sudan. Traveling with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to more than 50 nations\, she coordinated messaging campaigns and responses to sensitive and high-profile foreign policy actions\, from hostage negotiations to the U.S. campaign against Huawei’s 5G expansion in the West. She led U.S. government efforts to push back against sophisticated Chinese\, Russian\, and Iranian malign influence campaigns\, and was instrumental in the United States’ determination of the Chinese government’s genocide against the Uyghurs. \nMorgan began her government service as a public affairs officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)\, where she spent several months in Baghdad\, Iraq. She was an intelligence analyst at the U.S. Treasury in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis and was assigned to Riyadh\, Saudi Arabia\, as the Deputy U.S. Treasury Attaché. Morgan was the principal liaison from the U.S. Treasury to the banking sector in Saudi Arabia. \nMorgan graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Florida Southern College\, and she earned a dual Master of Arts in Government/Master of Business Administration from John Hopkins University in 2013. Morgan and her husband\, Jonathan\, have a daughter\, Adina\, who is the light of their lives. They live together in Nashville\, Tennessee where Morgan helped found a healthcare investment firm.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/15511/
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SUMMARY:The Future of the Abraham Accords
DESCRIPTION:This week\, as we commemorated the second anniversary of the historic signing of the Abraham Accords on the White House Lawn\, we will be examining the health and strength of these relationships under President Joe Biden and his relentless attempts to renegotiate a nuclear deal with Iran. \nAbout the speaker: Robert Greenway is an adjunct fellow at Hudson Institute and executive director of the Abraham Accords Institute of Peace. While Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the National Security Council’s Middle Eastern and North African Affairs Directorate he planned and executed the United States’ most significant economic sanctions since the Cold War as part of a broad strategy for Iran which doubled the sanctions pressure of the previous three administrations in one third the time. He was a principal architect of the historic Abraham Accords\, the most significant diplomatic breakthrough in Middle East peace since 1994. \nHe personally supervised development of a first-ever presidentially approved strategies for Iran\, Syria\, Iraq\, Libya\, Lebanon and Israel\, and established the first national level efficacy and assessment process to quantify outcomes and measure progress toward strategic objectives. He was instrumental in the removal of the world’s most dangerous terrorist leaders\, including Qassem Soleimani and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi\, greatly improving regional stability and safety. He coordinated the implementation of a comprehensive strategy with a broad international coalition to defeat ISIS resulting in the liberation of the 20\,000 square miles of territory it controlled\, and the elimination of its leadership in Syria and Iraq. \nBefore being assigned to the NSC he served at the Defense Intelligence Agency as a Senior Intelligence Officer in U.S. Central Command. While assigned to USCENTCOM he deployed twice to Afghanistan as the Senior Intelligence Analyst for the Commander\, Special Operations Joint Task Force from 2013-2014\, and as Senior Intelligence Advisor for the Commander International Security Assistance Forces in 2011. Identified new approaches to mapping bulk financial transactions using big data to identify illicit activity enabling legal action against global illicit trade networks for which he was awarded the David Rist Prize for research contributing to tangible results. \nMr. Greenway retired from active duty prior to joining the DIA having commanded Special Forces units at every level from Team through Battalion. In October 2001 he deployed in support of Operation Relentless Pursuit and Enduring Freedom I while assigned to a Special Mission Unit immediately following the attacks of 11 September. He deployed again in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) in 2003 and 2004 where his duties included establishing the Iraqi Counterterrorism Force. \nMr. Greenway was selected by the Deputy Secretary of Defense to report on the status of the Iraqi Insurgency before serving as a Counterterrorism Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict.  He has an MA with Honors from Webster University and a BA from the Virginia Military Institute.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-future-of-the-abraham-accords/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220907T120000
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SUMMARY:Mind the Gap: The Divergence Between Israeli & American Jews
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker: Jonathan S. Tobin is Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate — JNS.org — an international wire service covering the Jewish world and Israel. He’s also a senior contributor for The Federalist and a columnist for Newsweek\, the New York Post\, Haaretz and Israel Hayom\, as well as a regular contributor for other publications such as The Washington Examiner and Commentary magazine. He covers the American political scene\, foreign policy\, the U.S.-Israel relationship\, Middle East diplomacy and the Jewish world. \nPrevious to becoming editor of JNS\, Mr. Tobin was executive editor\, senior online editor and chief political blogger for Commentary magazine. He also served as editor-in-chief of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. \nMr. Tobin has won more than 50 awards including Top Columnist for Jewish publications ten times\, most recently in 2018 and 2019. He appears regularly on television commenting on politics in the United States and Israel\, foreign policy and Jewish affairs\, and lectures on college campuses and to Jewish communities. \nMr. Tobin was born in New York City\, attended local schools and studied history at Columbia University.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/mind-the-gap-the-divergence-between-israeli-american-jews/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220831T120000
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SUMMARY:Existential Challenges Facing Israel
DESCRIPTION:An Iran with 60 kilograms of highly enriched uranium\, who has denied inspection access to the International Atomic Energy Administration;  the rise and empowerment of an array of terrorist groups on Israel’s borders\, many of which are terrorist proxies; the exonerating of terrorist groups who wage war against the citizens of Israel by lofty bodies such as the UN; the rise of cancel culture and wokeness on college campuses and the apparent efforts of the US to withdraw from the region: How does Israel handle all of these challenges and existential threats to its being? \nHere to talk to us about this is Dr. Efraim Inbar\, President of the Jerusalem Institute for Security and Strategy. \nAbout our speaker: Efraim Inbar was the founding director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies\, a position he held for 23 years (1993-2016)\, and a professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University. He has been a visiting professor at Georgetown\, Johns Hopkins and Boston universities; a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; a Manfred Warner NATO Fellow; and a visiting fellow at the (London-based) International Institute for Strategic Studies. \nHe was president of the Israel Association of International Studies; a member of the Political Strategic Committee of the National Planning Council; chairman of the National Security Curriculum committee in the Ministry of Education; and a member of the Academic Committee of the IDF History Department. He has authored five books: Outcast Countries in the World Community (1985)\, War and Peace in Israeli Politics. Labor Party Positions on National Security (1991)\, Rabin and Israel’s National Security (1999)\, The Israeli-Turkish Entente (2001) and Israel’s National Security: Issues and Challenges since the Yom Kippur War (2008)\, and edited fourteen collections of scholarly articles. He is an expert on Israeli strategic doctrine\, public opinion on national security issues\, US Middle East policy\, Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy\, and Israel-Turkey relations. \nInbar holds a M.A and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago\, after finishing undergraduate studies in Political Science and English Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/existential-threats-to-israel/
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SUMMARY:Reviving a Dead Corpse: The Continuing Iran Negotiations
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker: Shoshana Bryen is a leading specialist in U.S. defense policy and Middle East affairs. The former Executive Director and SeniorDirector for Security Policy at JINSA\, Mrs. Bryen was author of the widely republished JINSA Reports. She has worked with the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College and the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv\, and lectured at the National Defense University in Washington. \nMrs. Bryen coordinated programs in the Middle East for military professionals that allowed more than 450 American military officers to engage in professional discussions of issues that both unite and divide the United States\, Israel and Jordan. She also created a program to take the cadets and midshipmen of America’s service academies to Israel for a three-week work/study program that has permitted hundreds of future officers to have a positive\, in-depth experience in Israel. She has also taken Turkish and Israeli military officers to speak at the service academies and has lectured in the  academies as well. \nHer work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal\, the New York Sun and Defense News\, among other outlets\, as well as in JINSA Reports. \nShe is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Aleethia Foundation that provides opportunities for wounded veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars\, and is a Member of the Board of the Naval Academy Jewish Chapel Foundation.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/reviving-a-dead-corpse-the-continuing-iran-negotiations/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220817T120000
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SUMMARY:The Palestinian Islamic Jihad War Against Israel
DESCRIPTION:Editor\, columnist and analyst Alex Traiman revealed how Israel’s skilled intelligence agencies were aware Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) was preparing fresh attacks on Israel\, enabling Israel to strike preemptively. Traiman kept his finger on the pulse and reported the many misfired PIJ missiles that landed on Palestinian civilians. Listen to this captivating and illuminating webinar featuring one of Israel’s finest analysts. \nAbout our speaker: Alex Traiman is the Managing Director and Jerusalem Bureau Chief of JNS.org. Alex has his finger on the pulse of everything that is happening in Israel and within the Israeli Knesset. He has written scores of articles and had directed and produced major films\, such critically acclaimed as “Iranium” and “Honor Diaries.”
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/briefing-on-operation-breaking-dawn/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220810T120000
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SUMMARY:The Jerusalem Sbarro Bombing
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n  \n\n\n\n\nPlease consider sponsoring an EMET webinar featuring top experts offering critical insights impacting Israel and U.S. national security. Policymakers and the general public need to hear these voices. Your support is essential for these webinars to continue.\n\n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-jerusalem-sbarro-bombing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220804T120000
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SUMMARY:The IRGC's Expanding Presence in Latin America
DESCRIPTION:Since the Iranian regime toppled the Shah in 1979\, their goal has been to export the Islamic revolution. The regime views Latin America as an easy target through which to spread anti-American propaganda and flex Iranian influence. In addition to a missionary network that includes media outlets\, educational institutions and mosques\, Iran has also worked to strengthen its ties with Venezuela\, possibly even providing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with long-range missiles capable of reaching the US. \nThere is now an “air bridge” between Iran and Venezuela\, an inconspicuous way to transport senior regime members\, intelligence officials and weapons between the two countries under the guise of a passenger or cargo route. In May\, a Boeing 747 cargo plane landed in Ciudad del Este\, Paraguay\, with no cargo but only the 18-member crew–consisting of seven Iranians and 11 Venezuelans–including a board member of the U.S.-sanctioned Iranian airline Fars Air Qeshm\, and a senior member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Many of these flights coincide with a spike in Iranian activity in Latin America\, including in similar-minded countries like Cuba and Nicaragua. \nWhat is the IRGC – which is supposed to be under international sanctions – doing on our doorstep in Latin America? Where is the Biden Administration in tackling this looming threat? Here to discuss this will be Emanuele Ottolenghi.\n\nAbout our Speaker: Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi is a senior fellow at FDD and an expert at FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power (CEFP) focused on Hezbollah’s Latin America illicit threat networks and Iran’s history of sanctions evasion. His research has examined Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\, including its links to the country’s energy sector and procurement networks. His areas of expertise also include the EU’s Middle East policymaking\, transatlantic relations\, the Arab-Israeli conflict\, and Israel’s domestic politics. Prior to joining FDD\, Emanuele headed the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels and taught Israel Studies at St. Antony’s College\, Oxford University. \nHe is author of The Pasdaran: Inside Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\, Iran: The Looming Crisis\, and Under a Mushroom Cloud: Europe\, Iran and the Bomb. Emanuele blogs at The Hill. His columns have also appeared in leading outlets including The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, and London’s The Sunday Times. He obtained his PhD in political theory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, preceded by undergraduate studies in political science at the University of Bologna.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-irgcs-expanding-presence-in-latin-america/
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SUMMARY:Normalization with Saudi Arabia and its Effects on Education
DESCRIPTION:  \nEMET has long argued that the best litmus test for whether or not a nation is ready for peace is to examine how they educate the next generation. Education can be used as a tool for liberalization\, for tolerance\, for openness to “the other\, and for planting the seeds of democracy and human rights. Or it can be used to indoctrinate children towards hatred of “the other” and towards extremism and violence. \nIMPACT-se has just released its 2022 annual update on Saudi textbooks\, depicting an overall trend of improvement following major reforms since 2020. Whereas only a decade ago\, focus was put on encouraging students to prepare for jihad and martyrdom\, the majority of references to violent jihad justifying and praising violence and murder on behalf of the Prophet Muhammad have now been removed from the textbooks. While some problematic content\, such as negative depictions of Jews\, Zionism and Christians\, remains or has even been made worse\, others\, particularly instances of the kind of antisemitism based on modern European tropes\, have largely been removed. \nIMPACT-se has also released an extensive review of the Palestinian curriculum used in our UNRWA schools. This report analyzed textbooks and new “study cards” produced by the Palestinian Authority (PA) for the 2021–22 school year\, which are used in the curricula of the West Bank\, Gaza\, East Jerusalem\, and UNRWA schools\, and includes selected examples from several hundred pages of educational content. Contrary to the assurances made by the PA to its international partners that improvements would be made rapidly to improve the 2020–21 curriculum\, IMPACT-se found that there were no revisions to the PA curriculum for the current 2021–22 school year. In addition to the lack of PA-assured textbook revisions\, research on the supplemental online learning materials called study cards found that the PA Ministry of Education published the same or worse content in violation of international standards of peace\, tolerance and non-violence in education. \nAbout the speaker: Marcus Sheff was a political reporter at The Nation\, an editor at The Jerusalem Post\, and a foreign correspondent before heading The Word Shop\, a strategic communications firm\, for a decade. He worked for Dow Jones International and Advanstar Inc. and was CEO at Intermedia\, an international business development firm\, before becoming Executive Director at The Israel Project. He has for two decades been involved in in global healthcare\, briefed world leaders\, spoken at the United Nations and parliaments\, and appears regularly on media. He studied political science and international relations at Leeds University where he was an elected leader of the student union\, and international relations at Tel Aviv University.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/normalization-with-saudi-arabia-and-its-effects-on-education/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220713T120000
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SUMMARY:President Biden's Middle East Trip
DESCRIPTION:As President Biden is about to make his maiden presidential voyage to the region\, what can we realistically expect him to walk away with? What are the expectations in Israel regarding this trip? What are the ramifications of the President’s visit on the status of the Palestinians? What is Israel’s perspective on the sort of peace they have with Egypt and Jordan\, as opposed to the sort of peace with members of the Abraham Accords – the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain – as well as with Morocco and Sudan? Does Israel believe it is possible to have normal relations with Saudi Arabia? \nNow that negotiations with Iran have apparently been exhausted through the last 16 months\, including eight rounds of negotiations in Vienna and one in Doha\, will the president be able to make greater security commitments to the state of Israel and to the Gulf states? Do they feel a war with Iran is inevitable? Will this be President Biden’s moment of truth? \nDr. Jonathan Schanzer recently returned from an extensive trip to Israel\, where he kept his eyes and ears close to the ground. Come hear what one of America’s leading Middle East experts has to tell us regarding these\, as well as other burning issues\, as the president embarks on his first trip to the region. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at FDD\, where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. He is also on the leadership team of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power\, a project on the use of financial and economic power as a tool of statecraft. \nJonathan previously worked as a terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury\, where he played an integral role in the designation of numerous terrorist financiers. He has held previous think tank research positions at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Middle East Forum. \nJonathan has written hundreds of articles on the Middle East\, along with more than a dozen monographs and chapters for edited volumes. His new book\, Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas\, Israel and Eleven Days of War (FDD Press 2021)\, challenges and corrects the some of the wildly inaccurate news reported during the conflict. It is the first book published on the war. His three other books have made unique contributions to the field. State of Failure: Yasser Arafat\, Mahmoud Abbas\, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) argues the main roadblock to Palestinian statehood is the Palestinian Authority’s political dysfunction and mismanagement. Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine (Palgrave Macmillan 2008) is still the only book on the market that analyzes the ongoing Palestinian civil war. Al-Qaeda’s Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups and the Next Generation of Terror (Washington Institute for Near East Policy 2004) was the first to explore the al-Qaeda franchises of the Middle East. \nJonathan testifies often before Congress and publishes widely in the American and international media. He has appeared on American television channels such as Fox News and CNN\, and Arabic language television channels such as Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/president-bidens-middle-east-trip/
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SUMMARY:The View From Abu Dhabi
DESCRIPTION:Our own Hussein Aboubakr Mansour just returned from an extensive trip to Abu Dhabi\, where he had several meetings with high-level Emirati\, Israeli and Saudi diplomats. He will address his takeaways about their view of the Biden administration’s performance thus far\, their relationships with the United States and other world leaders who would like to project power in the region and what the Arab Gulf countries are saying about their relationship with Israel. \nAbout the speaker: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour is the Director of EMET’s Program for Emerging Democratic Voices from the Middle East. Hussein was born in Cairo\, Egypt into a family who raised another son to be an Imam inspiring young people to become Jihadists. \nHis critical intellect led him to find out more about Israel and Jews and to forge friendships with Israelis. As a result\, he was arrested and tortured by the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak under suspicion of being an agent of the government of Israel. \nHussein received political asylum in the United States under President Barack Obama in 2012 and worked as an instructor for language and culture at the Defense Language Institute at Monterey\, California. He then went on to work as an educator and public speaker for StandWithUs\, educating students about cultural and geopolitical issues in the Middle East and helping them counter antisemitism. \nHussein wrote an autobiography\, Minority of One: The Unchaining of the Arab Mind\, and his articles have appeared in Commentary\, Newsweek\, the Jewish Journal\, JNS.org\, Times of Israel and Mosaic Magazine. Hussein has worked for EMET since September 2020\, and has been integral in crafting the ideas behind the Israel Normalization Act of 2021\, based on his own personal experiences.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-view-from-abu-dhabi/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220629T120000
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SUMMARY:The Tectonic Shift on Israel's Northern Border
DESCRIPTION:This webinar was sponsored by Sarah and Buddy Stern to commemorate the Yahrzeit of Sarah’s sister\, Mynda Barenholtz \nIf you would like more information on sponsoring a future webinar\, please contact info@emetonline.org. \nEver since Syria’s civil war began in 2011\, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been increasingly propped up by the Islamic Republic of Iran\, which remains firmly within the Russian constellation. Although many had thought that Russia would be exiting Syria to consolidate its troop buildup in Ukraine\, Russia has actually been escalating its presence in Syria. \nDespite recent elections\, Hezbollah still controls the Lebanese infrastructure\, and parts of Syria have now become sensitive touchstones between Russian\, Iranian and US forces\, while Hezbollah has threatened to blow up the Israeli Karish maritime gas rigs. \nIsrael has been conducting what is known as “The War Between the Wars” to reduce the Iranian presence in both Syria and Lebanon and has coordinated with the United States according to a recent Wall Street Journal report. \nAnd of course\, the Iranian proxy\, Hezbollah\, now has approximately 150\,000 missiles on Israel’s northern border\, and Iran has likely recently become a nuclear-threshold state. \nAre these all of these rivalling powers on Israel’s northern border too close for comfort? How can Israel prevent an unintended explosion between these rivaling powers on her northern border? \nHere to answer these questions and more is Lieutenant- Colonel (res.) Sarit Zehavi of the IDF and the Director of the Alma Research and Education Center. \nAbout the speaker: Lt. Col. (Res.) Sarit Zehavi is the CEO and founder of Alma – a nonprofit and an independent research and education center specialized in Israel’s security challenges on its northern border. Sarit has briefed hundreds of groups and forums\, ranging from US Congress members to 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. Sarit holds an M.A. in Middle East Studies from Ben-Gurion University. Sarit Zehavi and her husband Yaron are raising their five children in Western Galilee.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-tectonic-shift-on-israels-northern-border/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220622T120000
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SUMMARY:Status Update: Biden and the Iran Nuclear Deal
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis week\, International Atomic Energy Administration (IAEA) confirmed that Iran removed 27 cameras from its nuclear facilities. The 27 cameras were installed as part of the 2015 JCPOA\, referred to as the nuclear deal. As IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi stated\, “The less my inspectors and my analysists see what is happening in Iran\, the less ability we have to know how much material they are enriching\, how many centrifuges they are putting together…. No-one can go into an agreement without knowing what your base line is… Normally\, history tells us and recent history tells us\, it is never a good thing when you tell international inspectors to go home.” \nHe also warned that if Iran does not reinstall those cameras within the next few weeks\, it will be impossible to return to the deal. \nThis comes as news breaks that Iran has been constructing yet another nuclear facility close to the Natanz nuclear facility\, so deep within the mountains that it will evade the massive power of bunker busting bombs. \nAccording to David Albright and Sarah Burkhard from the Institute for Science and International Security\, as well as Andrea Stricker from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies\, breakout time for a nuclear bomb\, has been reduced to zero. Within 1.5 months\, they can have three nuclear bombs. \nIt is obvious\, what sort of game Iran has been playing with the international community. \nThis week\, the Biden administration decided to impose sanctions on Chinese and Emirati companies\, as well as a network of Iranian petrochemical producers\, accusing them of helping to “evade sanctions” by supporting the sale of Iran’s petrochemical products abroad. \nDoes this actually signal that the United States administration\, under President Biden\, has given up on employing merely the diplomatic tract with Iran? Is the imposition of sanctions sufficient? Are they actually considering a “Plan B”?  Or will they just allow the nuclear talks to whither on the vine\, without acknowledging that we have exhausted the diplomatic route? Will they still try to pull a deal with Iran out of their back pockets\, as evidence of a “foreign policy victory” before the midterm elections in November? \nHere to answer these questions and more is Behnam Ben Taleblu. \nAbout the speaker: Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at FDD where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. Behnam previously served as a research fellow and senior Iran analyst at FDD. Prior to his time at FDD\, Behnam worked on non-proliferation issues at an arms control think-tank in Washington. Leveraging his subject-matter expertise and native Farsi skills\, Behnam has closely tracked a wide range of Iran-related topics including: nuclear non-proliferation\, ballistic missiles\, sanctions\, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\, the foreign and security policy of the Islamic Republic\, and internal Iranian politics. Frequently called upon to brief journalists\, congressional staff\, and other Washington-audiences\, Behnam has also testified before the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nHis analysis has been quoted in The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Reuters\, Fox News\, The Associated Press\, and Agence France-Presse\, among others. Additionally\, he has contributed to or co-authored articles for Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, Fox News\, The Hill\, War on the Rocks\, The National Interest\, and U.S. News & World Report. Behnam has appeared on a variety of broadcast programs\, including BBC News\, Fox News\, CBS Interactive\, C-SPAN\, and Defense News. Behnam earned his MA in International Relations from The University of Chicago\, and his BA in International Affairs and Middle East Studies from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/status-update-biden-and-the-iran-nuclear-deal/
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SUMMARY:The Moral and Strategic Failure of Ignoring the Protests in Iran
DESCRIPTION:In at least 40 cities and towns throughout much of Iran\, thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest a government they deeply despise and distrust. Yet\, there is hardly any mention in the media about it\, and even less from the Biden administration. \nThis latest round of protests began shortly after May 3rd\, when the government announced its intention to remove its subsidy of flour that had been in place for over 200 years.  The Iranian government had been relying on a Ukrainian supply of wheat\, which had threatened the supply chain and global prices\, but because of a pervasive atmosphere of total corruption and mismanagement\, Iranians took to the streets to demonstrate. On top of that\, a building collapsed last week\, killing dozens of people and trapping more than 80 under the rubble. \nWhat began as a purely economic protest has morphed into a great protest against the Iranian regime\, with shouts of “We do not hate America. We hate the regime. Down with the regime. Death to Khameini.” These people have demonstrated phenomenal courage. The Basij\, as well various IRGC militias have randomly shot and killed many of the demonstrators. Others have been rounded up\, arrested and tortured\, and carted off to the notorious Evin prison\, sometimes never to be seen from or heard from again. Yet\, the valiant demonstrators continue. \nWhere is the Western media about this? Why no word from the White House. \nWe are profoundly honored to have with us Navid Mohebbi\, a policy fellow from the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI). \nAbout the speaker: Navid is a former Iranian political prisoner and long-time political activist. In 2010\, Mohebbi was arrested by the Islamic Republic in Iran and recognized by the Committee to Protect Journalists as the youngest jailed journalist in the country. \nNavid was born and raised in Iran. Before coming to the US in 2013\, he lived in Turkey for two years. He holds a BA in international relations and Middle Eastern studies from George Washington University and previously worked as a Persian media analyst for the State Department. He also recently completed a DOD-funded fellowship program in which he researched the impact of climate change on political stability in Iran.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-moral-and-strategic-failure-of-ignoring-the-protests-in-iran/
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SUMMARY:Luncheon with Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi
DESCRIPTION:Location: One block from Union Station\, Washington\, DC\nWe will provide the exact location following RSVP. \nThe Jewish Policy Center and EMET invite you to lunch! In person. Really. \nAn advocate of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence\, Mayor Revivi will discuss his “bottom-up” approach\, nurturing and deepening Efrat’s relationships with neighboring Palestinian villages. He brings new solutions to the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis and will discuss how the Abraham Accords helped change the trajectory of relations. \nUkrainian refugees and the long-term impact of COVID on Israel will also find their way onto the agenda. \nMayor of Efrat since 2008\, from 2016-2020 Mayor Revivi was also Chief Foreign Envoy of the YESHA Council\, acting as the political representative of the Israeli settlement movement to the international community. He served in the IDF and retired after 25 years in reserve service as a Lt. Col. In the tank corps. \nDietary Laws Observed. This presentation will also be broadcast via Zoom video webinar. A recording will be posted to the JPC website after the live event.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/luncheon-with-efrat-mayor-oded-revivi/
LOCATION:Union Station\, One block from Union Station\, Washington\, DC\, 20002
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SUMMARY:Israel Surrounded by Chaos: Current Events in Lebanon\, Syria\, and Iran
DESCRIPTION:Recent events in the Middle East will have far reaching consequences including on the geopolitical relationships of Israel. From elections in Lebanon\, home to Hezbollah\, to Russia’s withdrawal from Syria\, lack of stability and growing power vacuums are leading to ever more dangerous dynamics for Israel and her allies in the region. Join us for a discussion with Tony Badran\, expert on the Levant and co-author of the seminal column\, The Realignment\, among other important articles recently published. \nAbout the speaker: Tony Badran is a research fellow at FDD\, where he focuses on Lebanon\, Hezbollah\, Syria\, and the geopolitics of the Levant. Born and raised in Lebanon\, Tony has testified to the House of Representatives on several occasions regarding U.S. policy toward Iran\, Syria\, and Lebanon. His research currently focuses on the relationship between Iran’s Hezbollah model and regional states\, as well as the history of and future scenarios for Israel-Hezbollah wars. His writings have appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal\,  The Los Angeles Times\, The Washington Post\, The New York Post\, The Atlantic\, Foreign Policy\, Foreign Affairs\, and The Weekly Standard. He is a columnist and Levant analyst for Tablet magazine.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/israel-surrounded-by-chaos-current-events-in-lebanon-syria-and-iran/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220602T140000
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SUMMARY:Results of the IDSF National Survey
DESCRIPTION:In this webinar\, panelists will discuss the results of the recent IDSF National Survey. One of the results of the survey that made the headlines in Israel is that 75% of Arab citizens believe Jews have no right to sovereignty in Israel. What does this mean for Israel’s national security? What can be done to change this figure? Brigadier General (res.) Amir Avivi and Dr. Mordechai Kedar will discuss this and other related findings. \nCo-sponsored by EMET.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/results-of-the-idsf-national-survey/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220601T120000
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SUMMARY:The California Ethnic Studies Curriculum: How it Harms Israel & the Jewish People
DESCRIPTION:Lori Lowenthal Marcus is a lawyer in private practice. She is also the Legal Director of The Deborah Project\, a public interest law firm that represents people who are discriminated against in educational settings because they are Jewish and/or pro-Israel. \nIn the case filed by The Deborah Project on May 12\, 2020 in federal court in Los Angeles\, Concerned Jewish Parents and Teachers of Los Angeles\, et al. v. Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium\, et al.\, the firm seeks to stop a Consortium of ideologically-driven educators and its allies who are proselytizing and training LA school district teachers to use teaching materials that are virulently hostile to the Jewish state. The materials include descriptions\, as if fact\, of Israel as an illegitimate state\, one founded on ethnic cleansing\, committed to genocide\, and maintained as an apartheid state.  All Israelis are smeared as “white colonial” oppressors who steal Palestinians land and homes. These materials are being directed at public school children from pre-kindergarten to high school seniors. \nThis is just one of many cases currently being handled by The Deborah Project; the law firm is fighting antisemitism in many different manifestations in many different kinds of academic settings. \nLori began her legal career in the late 1980’s as a litigator in a large national law firm. Her practice consisted primarily of representing media clients in First Amendment cases.  She graduated from Harvard Law School\, has two masters’ from Bryn Mawr College\, and received her B.A. from Brandeis University. \nWhile raising her four children\, Lori founded an international Zionist organization\, Z STREET.  When the IRS pushed aside Z STREET’s application for tax-exempt status\, she successfully sued the IRS for viewpoint discrimination. During and following the seven years of the Z STREET litigation\, Lori spent nearly a dozen years as a journalist covering Israel\, the Middle East\, and the Jewish diaspora\, particularly the rising tide of antisemitism on U.S. college campuses. \nRead her latest piece in the Wall Street Journal: “California Parents Say No to Anti-Semitic Ethnic Studies“
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-california-ethnic-studies-curriculum-how-it-harms-israel-the-jewish-people/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220525T120000
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SUMMARY:To Deal or Not to Deal? That is Biden's Question
DESCRIPTION:Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at FDD. From 2019-2020\, Richard served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. He previously served as chief of staff for Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and deputy chief of staff and senior foreign policy adviser to former U.S. Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois in both the U.S. House and Senate. \nAs a staff associate for the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State-Foreign Operations\, Richard worked on a wide range of issues related to U.S. foreign assistance\, including foreign military financing\, international security assistance\, international peacekeeping\, development\, global health and economic support funds. \nHe was a founding staff director of the House U.S.-China Working Group and was among the first Americans ever to visit China’s human space launch center. A leader in efforts to expand U.S. missile defense cooperation with Israel\, Richard played a key role in U.S. funding for the Arrow-3 program\, Iron Dome and the deployment of an advanced missile defense radar to the Negev Desert. \nIn the Senate\, Richard emerged as a leading architect of the toughest sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was the lead Republican negotiator for three rounds of sanctions targeting the Central Bank of Iran\, the SWIFT financial messaging service\, and entire sectors of the Iranian economy. Richard also drafted and negotiated legislation promoting human rights and democracy in Iran\, including sanctions targeting entities that provide the Iranian regime with the tools of repression. His Iran sanctions work was featured in the book The Iran Wars. \nAs the governor’s chief of staff\, Richard managed government in America’s fifth-largest state with oversight of all day-to-day operations\, including homeland security\, public safety\, and public health. He also spearheaded the first-ever state legislation to divest public pension funds from companies engaged in boycotts of Israel\, which sparked a nationwide initiative in state capitols around America.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/to-deal-or-not-to-deal-that-is-bidens-question/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220518T120000
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SUMMARY:The Campus War Against Israel
DESCRIPTION:Richard L. Cravatts\, Ph.D.\, author of six books\, including Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews\, Jew Hatred Rising: The Perversities of the Campus War Against Israel & Jews\, and Weaponizing Our Schools: Critical Race Theory and the Racist Assault on America’s Students\, is President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)\, an organization with 30\,000 members worldwide. \nAs a professor of the past 15 years\, he has taught over 21 courses at 14 universities in Florida and Massachusetts.\nDr. Cravatts has published over 550 articles and book chapters on campus anti-Semitism\, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict\, campus free speech\, terrorism\, Constitutional law\, Middle East politics\, and social policy in the Boston Globe\, New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Newsweek\, Chicago Tribune\, Baltimore Sun\, American Thinker\, Jewish Press\, Human Events\, Harvard Crimson\, FrontPage Magazine\, Times of Israel\, and many others\, and also gives speeches nationally on these topics and appears as a guest on radio shows. \nIn addition to serving as a member of the board of directors of The Brandeis Center\, Dr. Cravatts is also a board member of The Journal for the Study of Antisemitism\, SPME\, The AMCHA Initiative\, The Israel Group\, Alliance for Israel\, and the Florida chapter of the Zionist Organization of America\, an advisory board member of the Endowment for Middle East Truth\, the Abraham Global Peace Initiative\, and The Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust\, and a member of SPME’s Council of Scholars.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-campus-war-against-israel/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220511T120000
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SUMMARY:An Expert Perspective from Israel on Global Affairs
DESCRIPTION:Since President Biden took office in January 2021\, the world has seen dramatic shifts in international affairs and alliances.  From the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to the Russian invasion of Ukraine\, our allies and foes alike are reassessing geopolitical security strategies that have a far greater impact than anyone could have imagined just 18 months ago.  As the Biden administration continues its desperate attempt to re-enter the dangerous Iranian nuclear deal while also re-engaging with Palestinian terrorists who incite internal chaos and threaten violence in Israel\, our most important ally on the frontlines of these international conflicts finds itself\, once again\, on its own to navigate very treacherous waters.  What role do U.S. political divides play in Israel’s quest for survival?  How do Israelis and the Bennet/Lapid governing coalition view and handle the new state of affairs in the U.S. since the Biden/Harris administration entered office?  What new alliances might Israel develop in order to survive if U.S. policymakers fail to recognize Israel’s strategic importance to U.S. national security?  These and other questions will be answered by the always brilliant and prolific Caroline Glick. \nCaroline Glick is an American-born Israeli columnist\, journalist\, and author. She has written for Israel Hayom\, The Jerusalem Post\, and Maariv. She currently writes for the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS). She is the author of The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East\, (Crown 2014) and Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad (Gefen 2008). The Israeli Solution was endorsed by leading US policymakers including Vice President Mike Pence\, Senator Ted Cruz\, and National Security Advisor John Bolton. Shackled Warrior was endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former CIA director James Woolsey. \nGlick is the adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington\, DC\, and directs the Israeli Security Project at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. She travels frequently throughout the world to brief policymakers on issues related to Israel’s strategic environment and other related topics. She lectures widely on strategic and political issues affecting global security\, Israel and the Jewish people\, US-Israel relations\, Israel-Diaspora affairs\, and Israel’s changing strategic landscape. \nMs. Glick’s writings have also been published in leading newspapers and journals including The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, National Review\, the Journal of International Security Affairs\, and Commentary. Glick blogs on her website www.carolineglick.com and on her Facebook author page. Most recently\, Glick’s “Mideast News Hour\,” a weekly podcast and video show\,  has moved to the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS).  The show\, which will now be part of the JNS TV lineup\, features Glick’s commentary on the top headlines of the day\, and interviews with top guests from across the spectrum. \nModerated by Lauri Regan.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/an-expert-perspective-from-israel-on-global-affairs/
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SUMMARY:Why I am a Zionist
DESCRIPTION:A Distinguished Scholar in North American History at McGill University currently living in Jerusalem\, Professor Gil Troy is an award-winning American presidential historian and a leading Zionist activist.  Designated an  Algemeiner  J-100\, one of the top 100 people “positively influencing Jewish life\,” Troy wrote The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s\, and eight other books on the American presidency. One leading historian called Age of Clinton “the best book on the man and his times.” \nHis latest book\, co-authored with the former Soviet Prisoner of Zion and human rights activist Natan Sharansky\, Never Alone: Prison\, Politics and My People\, was published by Public Affairs of Hachette. Troy’s previous book\, The Zionist Ideas was a 2019 National Jewish Book Award Finalist. \nTroy’s book Moynihan’s Moment: America’s Fight against Zionism as Racism\, describes the fall of the UN\, the rise of Reagan and the spread of Anti-Zionism.  Jewish Ideas Daily designated it one of 2012’s “best books.” \nTroy just completed writing the introductions as Editor-in-Chief for an exciting new edition of Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Writings\, to be published by Koren Books in launching its Library of the Jewish People. And he has served as consultant and writer for a series of videos based on the Zionist Ideas for OpenDor Media\, to be released this spring. \nTroy was a featured commentator on CNN’s popular multipart documentaries\, The Eighties\, The Nineties\, and The 2000s. He has been interviewed on most major North American TV and Radio networks\, with recent essays in The Wall Street Journal\, Newsweek\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Politico\, the Hill\, The Daily Beast – and a weekly column for the Jerusalem Post.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/why-i-am-a-zionist/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T120000
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SUMMARY:FDR\, the Media and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Rafael Medoff is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His latest book is America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History\, published by the Jewish Publication Society & University of Nebraska Press.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/fdr-the-media-and-the-holocaust/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220413T120000
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SUMMARY:Assessing the Strength of the Abraham Accords Today
DESCRIPTION:As word continues to leak out about greater concessions made to the Islamic Republic of Iran behind closed doors in Vienna\, many of our newly-forged relationships with countries such as the United Arab Emirates\, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia might be in jeopardy. In December\, Sheik Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan traveled to Tehran on a rare visit. In January\, Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullallatif bin Rashid Al Zayan traveled to China to meet with Foreign Minister Wang Yi. And Saudi Arabia has invited Chinese leader Xi Jinping to visit the Kingdom as early as this coming May and might actually accept the Chinese currency\, the yuan\, in lieu of U.S. dollars for its sale of oil to China\, which will have a mighty impact on the U.S. economy. \nAnd of course\, as these talks have been ongoing\, the Iranian-backed Houthis have attacked oil fields in Jiddah\, as well the Saudi capital Riyadh. On January 17th \, the Houthis attacked the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi\, killing three people. \nCome listen to the expert opinion of Victoria Coates to learn whether the Abraham Accords\, painstakingly constructed during the previous administration\, can withstand the vicissitudes of the current administration. \nAbout the speaker: Victoria Coates is the Director of the Center for Security Policy’s program on the Middle East and North Africa\, which focuses on combatting global anti-Semitism\, promoting the U.S.-Israel alliance\, and combatting the threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Coates works on regional issues such as energy policy\, countering predatory Chinese activity\, expanding the historic Abraham Accords between Israel and Muslim-majority nations\, and establishing a U.S.-led Middle East strategic alliance. \nCoates previously served as the Deputy National Security Advisor for the Middle East and North Africa on the National Security Council staff and the Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy in the Donald J. Trump administration.  She also served as the National Security Advisor in the office of Sen.Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and as Director of Research for (former) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s 2011 memoir\, Known and Unknown. \nCoates holds a B.A. from Trinity College\, a M.A. from Williams College\, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania\, all in art history.  Coates is the author and presenter of dozens of publications and conference papers worldwide on the intersections of art and history\, including David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art (Encounter Books\, 2016) and the forthcoming Seeing the Light: A History of Christianity in Twelve Works of Art (under contract with Encounter Books)\, which are part of a projected trilogy on the key tenets of Western Civilization: democracy\, the Judeo-Christian moral code\, and the primacy of the individual. \nCoates routinely appears on TV and radio outlets such as Fox News\, CNN\, OANN\, Newsmax\, The Hugh Hewitt Show\, The Erick Erickson Show\, The John Batchelor show\, and CSP’s own Secure Freedom Radio.  Her writing has appeared in Bloomberg\, FoxNews.com\, The Jerusalem Post\, The New York Post\, Newsweek\, The National Interest\, National Review\, The New Criterion\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Washington Examiner\, and The Washington Times.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/assessing-the-strength-of-the-abraham-accords-today/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220406T120000
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SUMMARY:The Call to Stop the Iran Deal from Those Who Know the Regime Best
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps no one knows the evils of the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran better than the Iranian Diaspora.  Many have witnessed loved ones and watched while tens of thousands of dissidents\, human rights activists\, members of religious minorities\, and members of the LGBTQ community have faced “show trials. ” These usually last no more than a few moments and frequently result in torture and execution. \nIf this “nuclear deal” does go through\, who are we empowering? Why are we ignoring the voices of thousands of courageous Iranian dissidents who despise the regime\, and cementing the rule of this repressive\, brutal theocracy seeking global hegemony? \nWhy are we trying to isolate one evil\, Russia\, while empowering another\, the Islamic Republic of Iran? And what can we possibly do about it? \nHere to answer these questions is Cameron Khansarinia\, Policy Director of the National Union for Democracy in Iran. \nAbout the speaker: Cameron Khansarinia is Policy Director of NUFDI\, a Washington-based non-partisan\, non-profit organization representing the Iranian-American community in pursuit of a US policy toward Iran rooted in democracy and human rights. Prior to joining NUFDI he lived in New York City and worked at BlackRock. He studied government and political theory at Harvard where he served as the President of the Iranian Association and as the Vice President of the Student Body. After the completion of his thesis under the advisement of Professor Harvey C. Mansfield\, he graduated in 2018.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-call-to-stop-the-iran-deal-from-those-who-know-the-regime-best/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220330T120000
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SUMMARY:Introducing a Great American Hero: The Man Who Leaked the Iran Deal
DESCRIPTION:  \nGabriel Noronha worked on the Iran Desk at the Department of State\, and in early March many of his former colleagues at State\, the National Security Council and the European Union were so aghast at the dangerous concessions offered to Iran that they contacted him in the hope that he could get the word out to the world\, and indeed he has. \nGabriel’s March 4th Twitter thread and his excellent March 7th article in Tablet Magazine have made their way around the world\, and we at EMET have used this very valuable information to help inform Congress of what precisely will be negotiated away in Vienna if these talks are successful. \nGabriel served as Special Advisor for Iran in the U.S. Department of State Department from 2019 to 2020. He previously worked in the U.S. Senate from 2015 to 2019\, including on the Senate Armed Services Committee for Chairmen John McCain and Jim Inhofe. \nGabriel is continuing to find out extremely disturbing details of just how far the American negotiating team under Robert Malley has gone and is continuing to use his Twitter feed to expose it to as many people as possible so that we can bring it to our members of Congress. \nOur elected officials\, under Article II of the Constitution\, have an obligation to exercise Congressional oversight\, particularly for a deal that could potentially be so incredibly devastating to the national security interests of the United States\, and our allies. Based on much of the information that Gabriel has revealed\, there is only a slight chance that this horrendous deal might be scuttled. \nIt is up to every one of you to please watch this video and call your Representative and Senators and let them know that this deal\, if accepted\, would present a clear and present danger and existential threat to Israel and our Sunni Gulf allies\, and would be an assault on the national security interests of the United States.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/introducing-a-great-american-hero-the-man-who-leaked-the-iran-deal/
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SUMMARY:How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Affects Israel's Perspective of Iran
DESCRIPTION:On February 24\, 2022\, most of the world woke up to the harsh realization that evil really does exist. Western Europe\, particularly Germany\, has reversed its long-held aversion to military spending and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz committed 2% of their GDP to defense. \nUnfortunately\, Israel has never been allowed the luxury of such slumber. Ever since Israel’s inception\, formidable forces have attempted to eliminate it. Israel has watched as Russian President Vladimir Putin commits atrocities against the valiant Ukrainian people\, and although Ukrainian Present Volodymyr Zelensky has made impassioned please for a “no-fly zone” to President Biden\, it has fallen on deaf ears. \nIsrael is now facing an existential crisis of its own\, with a regime that is every bit as evil as Russia: the Islamic Republic of Iran\, with which we are perilously close to a horrific nuclear agreement. Among other things\, the agreement will further cement the regime’s control with tens of billions of dollars\, and will give sanctions relief to some of the world’s worst terrorists. \nExperts agree that Iran is only weeks away from total nuclear breakout. Seeing how the United States has reacted to the crisis in Ukraine\, does that change Israel’s calculus when it comes to the nuclear project of the Islamic Republic of Iran? \nHere to answer those questions and more is Brigadier General Amir Avivi of the Israeli Defense Forces. \nAbout the speaker: Brigadier General Avivi concluded his service as the Head of the Auditing and Consulting Department of the Israeli Defense Establishment\, (including the Israel Defense Force\, the Ministry of Defense and Israeli Military Industries). In that position\, Avivi managed more than 100 military auditors and advisors. He was responsible for the audit of military readiness\, budgeting\, procurement\, projects\, bids\, cyber\, logistics\, infrastructure and operations. Avivi fulfilled various command positions in the Corps of Engineers leading thousands of soldiers in a dynamic combat environment. \nAvivi served as Brigade commander\, Deputy Division commander and head of the Military School of Engineers. He also served as the aide-de-camp for the Chief of the General Staff of the IDF\, Lt. General Moshe “Bogie” Yaalon. Avivi was at the heart of the policy-making process in the Israeli Government and Defense establishment during that term. Avivi also serves as the Principal of the New State Solution working group. Avivi is the Founder & CEO of Habithonistim.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/how-russias-invasion-of-ukraine-affects-israels-perspective-of-iran/
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SUMMARY:The Flawed Logic Behind the JCPOA
DESCRIPTION:As the entire world is focused on the humanitarian catastrophe resulting from the brutal war that Vladimir Putin has inflicted on Ukraine\, we at EMET have not taken our eyes off the ball of the enormous concessions that the Biden administration has offered to another enemy of the United States\, the Islamic Republic of Iran just to say\, “We have a deal!” \nWhat is behind this impulse to empower one enemy\, Iran\, as we are at war with another\, with whom Iran colludes? Why\, when the administration is trying to embargo Russian oil\, and has warned China against dealing with them\, has the administration\, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lerov\, given Russia “written guarantees “ that they can deal with Iran? \nWhy have we let Russia’s emissary\, Mikhail Ulyanov\, be our emissary in the negotiations in Vienna\, only for him to later brag about the degree of concessions that he and his Chinese colleagues were able to extract from America? \nHere to answer these questions and more was our esteemed friend and colleague\, David Wurmser.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker: Dr. David Wurmser\, is a senior analyst and director of the Project on Global anti-Semitism and the US-Israel Relationship at the Center for Security Policy\, as well as being a senior fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum. He also is the executive and founding member of the Delphi Global Analysis Group\, LLC – a firm specializing in geopolitical risk analysis and mitigation for infrastructure\, high-tech\, defense and financial firms from the United States\, Japan and India navigating in Israel – – since its founding in 2007. From December 2018 until September 2019\, Dr. Wurmser also served as senior advisor to the U.S. National Security Advisor\, Ambassador John Bolton.Prior to this\, Dr. Wurmser was the senior advisor from 2003-2007 to the U.S. Vice President Cheney on Middle East\, proliferation and strategic affairs. Before becoming the senior advisor for the Vice President in 2003\, Dr. Wurmser was the senior advisor to Under Secretary of State John Bolton at the State Department. \nImmediately following the 9/11 attacks\, Dr. Wurmser consulted until January 2002 for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the U.S. Department of Defense on a war‐related classified project on understanding the nature and strategic significance of terrorist group networks and their interactions with states. \nBefore entering government\, Dr. Wurmser founded the Middle East studies program at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in 1996. While at AEI Dr. Wurmser\, published Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein. \nDr. Wurmser’s military service includes 11 years of intelligence experience in the U.S. Navy Reserves\, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Commander. LCDR Wurmser was mobilized during the Operational Vigilant Warrior following Iraq’s surge toward Kuwait in 1994 to serve on the Iraq Intelligence Task for the DIA. He is the recipient of the prestigious Defense Meritorious Service Medal. \nDr. Wurmser holds a B.A. (political science)\, M.A. (international affairs and international economics) and a Ph.D. (on U.S. foreign policy and Middle East affairs) from the Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his book\, he has published extensively in in major periodicals including: The Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times and Commentary.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/14977/
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SUMMARY:Biden's Iran Deal: An Assessment
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker:  \nBehnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at FDD where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. Behnam previously served as a research fellow and senior Iran analyst at FDD. Prior to his time at FDD\, Behnam worked on non-proliferation issues at an arms control think-tank in Washington. Leveraging his subject-matter expertise and native Farsi skills\, Behnam has closely tracked a wide range of Iran-related topics including: nuclear non-proliferation\, ballistic missiles\, sanctions\, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps\, the foreign and security policy of the Islamic Republic\, and internal Iranian politics. Frequently called upon to brief journalists\, congressional staff\, and other Washington-audiences\, Behnam has also testified before the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nHis analysis has been quoted in The Washington Post\, The Wall Street Journal\, Reuters\, Fox News\, The Associated Press\, and Agence France-Presse\, among others. Additionally\, he has contributed to or co-authored articles for Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, Fox News\, The Hill\, War on the Rocks\, The National Interest\, and U.S. News & World Report. Behnam has appeared on a variety of broadcast programs\, including BBC News\, Fox News\, CBS Interactive\, C-SPAN\, and Defense News. Behnam earned his MA in International Relations from The University of Chicago\, and his BA in International Affairs and Middle East Studies from The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/bidens-iran-deal-an-assessment/
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SUMMARY:What on Earth is Putin Thinking?
DESCRIPTION:About this webinar: As Russia invades Ukraine\, the entire world is wondering what on earth is Vladimir Putin thinking? How does this affect the liberal world order as we know it\, with the United States at the helm? What is this going to do to the world’s energy supply? Would that further empower Iran? How does all of this affect Israel? \nHere to answer these questions is Dr. Stephen Blank. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Stephen J. Blank is Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. He has published over 900 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian\, U.S.\, Asian\, and European military and foreign policies\, testified frequently before Congress on Russia\, China\, and Central Asia\, consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency\, major think tanks and foundations\, chaired major international conferences in the U.S. and in Florence; Prague; and London\, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the U.S. and abroad. \nBlank has advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group. He has published or edited 15 books\, most recently Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Politics in Command (London: Global Markets Briefing\, 2006). He has also published Natural Allies? Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation (Carlisle\, PA: Strategic Studies Institute\, U.S. Army War College\, 2005). \nHe is currently completing a book entitled Light From the East: Russia’s Quest for Great Power Status in Asia to be published in 2014 by Ashgate. Dr. Blank is also the author of The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin’s Commissariat of Nationalities (Greenwood\, 1994); and the co-editor of The Soviet Military and the Future (Greenwood\, 1992).
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/what-on-earth-is-putin-thinking/
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