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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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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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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:In the Path of the Abraham Accords
DESCRIPTION:About the speaker: Jason Greenblatt was appointed by President Trump in 2017 as an Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations. In his role\, as the White House Special Envoy to the Middle East\, Jason served as one of the chief architects of the Peace to Prosperity Plan between Israel and the Palestinians and between Israel and its Arab neighbors Jason was also a key player in building the the foundation for the Abraham Accords\, through which the United Arab Emirates\, the Kingdom of Bahrain\, Sudan and the Kingdom of Morocco have normalized relations with Israel.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/in-the-path-of-the-abraham-accords/
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