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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.
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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.
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