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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: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:Re-conquering Gaza--What is at Stake\, Here?
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nThe transcript will be available here \nAs I write these words\, the Israeli Cabinet has just convened and has decided to reoccupy Gaza. This is after 22 months of heartbreaking war\, where the double objectives have been the dismantling of Hamas and the rescuing of the hostages. \nWhat has happened to create a change of military strategy for Israel? \nIsrael has eliminated much of the Hamas leadership\, including Yahya Sinwar on October  16\, 2024\, in Rafah\, Gaza\, Mohammad Deif on July 13\, 2024\, in al-Mawasi\, Gaza and Ismael Haniyeh on July 24\, 2024\, in Tehran\, Iran. Israel estimates that they have eliminated 14\,000 to 20\,000 members of Hamas since the start of the war. Yet\, Hamas has been able to regenerate thousands of young recruits. \nIsrael is not safe as long as Hamas exists. Hamas has displayed itself as a primitive terrorist group that hides behind its own civilians as it murders our own. \nMany of the families of the hostages are deeply concerned\, fearing that this might well risk the lives of their loved ones.  We know\, however\, that the lives of the hostages have been the “life insurance policy” of the Hamas terrorist group. \nYet\, we also know that members of Hamas have been slowly starving to death Israeli hostages captured on October 7\, 2023\, such as 24-year-old Evyatar David and 22 -year-old Ram Bravslavski. \nWe will also assess the prospects for what awaits after this conflict winds down\, including the establishment of a Palestinian state following the conclusion of this conflict\, as envisioned by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer\, French President Emmanuel Macron\, and Irish President Michael D.  Higgins\, among others\,  and how it will affect the geopolitics of the region. \nHere to discuss this escalation of the war is David Wurmser. \nAbout Our Speaker: Dr. David Wurmser is a Senior Analyst for Middle East Affairs at the Center for Security Policy\, as well as a Fellow at the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy. 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. \nPrior 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.   \n 
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/re-conquering-gaza-what-is-at-stake-here/
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SUMMARY:The Tectonic Shifts in the Middle East As President Trump Assumes Power
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here \nAs the forces of the IDF have decisively crippled Hezbollah in Lebanon\, and as Damascus falls from the Iranian-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad to the Turkish-backed forces of Mohammad al-Jolani\, with his background in Jabhat al-Nusra\, (Al Qaeda in the Levant) and ISIS\, how will Iran respond? How is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan responding to this new Syria? What are his new ambitions? Is Iran\, which has met with major defeats on their proxy battlefields\, lurching toward nuclear breakout? What could Israel do to prevent this? What should the United States and the West do? What sort of protection can the United States offer Israel against protection from the Iranian-backed Houthis? After 15 months\, does Israel have the manpower and military capability to fight so many battles on so many fronts\, and if need be\, alone? \nHere to answer these questions and more is David Wurmser. \nAbout our Speaker: Dr. David Wurmser is a senior fellow 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. \n\n\n\nPrior 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.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-tectonic-shifts-in-the-middle-east-as-president-trump-assumes-power/
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SUMMARY:A Failure to Learn from Past Mistakes: The State Department’s Continuous Insistence on a Palestinian State
DESCRIPTION:  \n[READ TRANSCRIPT HERE] \n  \nAs this is being written\, the State Department is busy submitting plans for a Palestinian State\, to be erected after the war. National Security Advisor\, Jake Sullivan has spoken about a contiguous Palestinian state\, stretching from Gaza through Judea and Samaria\, (the West Bank). He has also spoken about a “revamped and revised” Palestinian Authority. \nWhat guarantees do we have that this state will not become a proxy of Iran? How are we to be assured that\, even assuming the Palestinian Authority were to be “revamped and revised”\, what guarantee do we have that power would not change hands and this entity would not become another jihadist state in the middle of Israel\, making the very survival of Israel extremely difficult\, and giving it indefensible borders? Can the State Department do this without the consent of the Israeli government and the Israeli public? \nHere to answer these questions and more is Dr. David Wurmser. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr. David Wurmser is the Director of Middle East Studies and a Senior Scholar at the Center for Security Policy\, as well as a Fellow at the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy. David has served as Middle East Advisor to Former Vice President Dick Cheney and as Special Assistant to Former National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador John Bolton. He also served in the US Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer at the rank of Lieutenant Commander. David is also the Founder of the Delphi Global Analysis Group. \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. Before entering government\, Dr. Wurmser founded the Middle East studies program at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in 1996. While at AEI Dr. Wurmser published the book\, “ Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein.” \nDavid received his Bachelor’s degree\, his M.A.\, as well as his Ph.D from the Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his book\, he has also been published in The Wall Stret Journal\, The Financial Times and Commentary Magazine.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/a-failure-to-learn-from-past-mistakes-the-state-departments-continuous-insistence-on-a-palestinian-state/
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SUMMARY:Why Calls for an Immediate Ceasefire in the Gaza War Becomes a Strategic Liability for the United States
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n  \n[READ TRANSCRIPT HERE] \n  \nThis webinar was generously sponsored in loving memory of Pola Ann and M. David Kuppermann\, Z’L \nWhile many in the international community view the Hamas war on Israel strictly in narrow terms\, as just another Israeli-Palestinian war\, this war is different. This war is all about the Iranian axis of terror\, and its threat to the entire free world. For an immediate ceasefire of the war that Hamas launched on Israel with their barbaric attacks of October 7th\, Iranian-backed Houthis are attacking shipping lanes in the Red Sea\, cutting off a great deal of international commerce\, and Iranian-backed Hezbollah has stepped up the launching missiles onto Israeli towns. Yet\, calls from the international community for an immediate ceasefire are increasing. Renowned scholar\, David Wurmser will be discussing the wider regional and geo-strategic ramifications of this war\, and why calls for an immediate ceasefire will actually backfire against the United States\, Europe\, and the entire free\, Western world. \nAbout the Speaker: David Wurmser is the Director of Middle East Studies and a Senior Scholar at the Center for Security Policy\, as well as a Fellow at the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy. David has served as Middle East Advisor to Former Vice President Dick Cheney\, and as Special Assistant to Former National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador John Bolton. He also served in the US Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer at the rank of Lieutenant Commander. David is also the Founder of the Delphi Global Analysis Group. \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. Before entering government\, Dr. Wurmser founded the Middle East studies program at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in 1996. While at AEI Dr. Wurmser published the book\, “ Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein.” \nDavid received his Bachelor’s degree\, his M.A.\, as well as his Ph.D from the Johns Hopkins University. In addition to his book\, he has also been published in The Wall Street Journal\, The Financial Times and Commentary Magazine.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/why-calls-for-an-immediate-ceasefire-in-the-gaza-war-becomes-a-strategic-liability-for-the-united-states/
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