February 21 @ 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Russia, Israel, and the War with Hamas https://youtu.be/MeHdOuz6SGw The relationship between Moscow and Jerusalem has gone through many permutations. The Kremlin had initially allied itself with Yasser Arafat and other revolutionary groups, and during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Russia allied itself with the Arab states, with some Sovietologists even arguing that Moscow had encouraged and escalated tensions helping to provoke […]
March 6 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM A Potential Palestinian State: Will It Be an Ally or Enemy of the United States? https://youtu.be/jfaVn8uuHK0 After the worst massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust, many members of the international community have arrived at a single-factor conclusion of how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, combined with grandiose plans of how to finally bring peace to the Middle East: the rewarding of this violence with […]
March 13 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Iran as the Most Destabilizing Influence in the Middle East and Fundamental Human Rights Abuser https://youtu.be/K6u1V8ks2vY As all eyes have been set on Gaza, the Islamic Republic of Iran has not only been responsible for funding and training Hamas but the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria. In the meantime, experts from the Institute for Science and International Security, based on data from the International […]
March 20 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM The Israel/Hamas War: Regional and Domestic Implications and What it Means to Achieve Victory Israeli diplomat Eitan Na’eh joins us for an in-depth discussion of the implications of the Israel/Hamas war on Israel’s relationships with the Abraham Accords countries and the Gulf nations more broadly including a potential normalization deal with Saudi Arabia. We will also discuss the impact of October 7th on Israel’s civil society and what it […]
March 27 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Iranian Dominance Over the Middle East https://youtu.be/0pyfEsYWL6E As the international perspective of the world has focused primarily on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, many have neglected to address the actual root cause of this war: The Islamic Republic of Iran. We know that Iran lacks the courage to directly engage itself in any conflict. Instead, it uses its […]
April 3 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM A World Without the Islamic Republic of Iran https://youtu.be/BLg8K-nTEfA While much of the international community focuses its attention on the Israel/Hamas war and the Houthis disruption of maritime traffic in the Red Sea, the head of the snake that is terrorizing the world, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is being ignored at the world’s peril. In a recent Middle East Forum […]
April 8 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Why Must Israel Continue to Fight in Gaza https://youtu.be/G8XV8BMIhQE Israel has faced mounting pressure from the international community as well as from the Biden administration not to finish the job it has begun in Gaza. On Thursday, while speaking over the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Biden said that “an immediate ceasefire is necessary to protect innocent civilians.” An […]
April 16 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Emergency Briefing on Iran’s Attack on Israel https://youtu.be/dH6jSPftNtk <p data-pm-slice="1 1 About the Speaker: Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies (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 […]
April 25 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Russian Meddling in the Middle East: A View from Jerusalem https://youtu.be/aBfJnYyuzps Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the evolving dynamics of the Middle East conflict and its geopolitical implications. In this engaging session, we will delve into the shifting landscape of regional confrontations, moving beyond the traditional Arab-Israeli paradigm to a broader Western versus Iranian blocs confrontation. The recent Israeli military operations […]
April 30 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM The View from Israel: An Interview with Member of the Knesset Ohad Tal https://youtu.be/_-z8DSdX3aU Since its founding, Israel has been fighting enemies who have continually sought its annihilation but today’s wars – military, cognitive, and diplomatic – are presenting an existential threat unlike anything it has confronted since perhaps 1973. While the Islamic Republic of Iran has unleashed not just proxies in the form of Hamas’ […]
May 8 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Special Yom HaShoah Conversation with Holocaust Historian, Rafael Medoff https://youtu.be/WZalSEXQdgc As antisemitism spirals out of control across the globe including on the streets of cities across the U.S., and college campuses are overrun with students and faculty shouting for the annihilation of Israel and the expulsion of Jews from the country, it is difficult not to recognize frightening parallels with Germany in […]