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SUMMARY:Cocktails and Conversation on the Lessons from 9/11
DESCRIPTION:The Endowment for Middle East Truth invites you to attend an evening of Cocktails and Conversation on the Lessons from 9/11.\n\nRSVP to dheffernan@emetonline.org\n        Subject line: ‘9/11 Seminar’\n\nOn the thirteenth anniversary of the horrific events of September 11\, 2001\, the United States and the Western world face the same threat by genocidal Islamic terrorists that were responsible for the death of 3\,000 Americans on U.S. soil.\n \n\nThe so called Islamic State\, or ISIS\, has brutally murdered thousands of innocent civilians\, and has extended its reach deep into western and northern Iraq and across Syria. The so called Islamic State’s beheading of American journalist James Wright Foley prompted limited US airstrikes in Iraq.  ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi recently said in a video interview “We will humiliate them [U.S. soldiers] everywhere\, God willing\, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House.”  At the same time\, the threat of homegrown terrorism is on the rise; more than 100 Americans have traveled to Syria to join Al Qaeda-inspired terror groups\, and two Americans who have joined ISIS have already been killed. In the past few months\, terrorism charges have been filed against several Americans to prevent homegrown terrorists.\n\nWhat are the critical lessons that the U.S. should take from the 9/11 attacks? What should the United States do to safeguard our homeland and prevent future attacks on U.S. soil? How can the U.S. stop the rise of homegrown terrorism?\n\nPlease join us as we hear from national security and counterterrorism experts on these issues\, and more.  EMET is privileged to host author and scholar Dr. Walid Phares; co-founder of the Reform Party of Syria Farid Ghadry; Muslim Brotherhood expert Kyle Shideler; and Founder and President of the Endowment for Middle East Truth\, Sarah Stern.\n\nThursday\, September 11th\, 2014\n5:00 PM – 7:00 PM (ET)\n2226 Hearing Room\, Rayburn House Building\nWashington\, DC\n\n\nDrinks to be Served (Dietary Laws Observed)\n  \n\n\nFeaturing:\n\nDr. Walid Phares serves as an Advisor to the Anti-Terrorism Caucus in the US House of Representatives and is a Co-Secretary General of the Transatlantic Legislative Group on Counter Terrorism\, a Euro-American Caucus\, since 2009. Dr Phares briefs and testify to the US Congress\, the European Parliament and the United Nations Security Council on matters related to international security and Middle East conflict.  He has served on the Advisory Board of the Task Force on Future Terrorism of the Department of Homeland Security and the Advisory Task force on Nuclear Terrorism. Dr Phares teaches Global Strategies at the National Defense University. He has published several books in English\, Arabic and French including the latest three post-9/11 volumes: Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West; The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy and The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad.\n\nFarid Ghadry is a native Syrian and elected leader of the Reform Party of Syria\, and has dedicated his life to reforms in the Arab world.  At the age of 17\, Mr. Ghadry was arrested by the Syrian intelligence in Zabadani\, outside Damascus and imprisoned for civil disobedience. To this day\, he is still pursued by the Syrian intelligence from this incident in 1971. Mr. Ghadry has testified in the US Congress on extremism and freedom. He also spoke at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy\, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS)\, Harvard University\, University of Virginia\, the European Parliament\, the French Parliament\, and the Belgian Senate. Dr. Ghadry has also been invited by the Israeli Knesset to address the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee\, making him the first Syrian dissident to speak at the Knesset (Assad revoked his Syrian citizenship in 2007 as a result of that visit). He is a member of the Committee on the Present Danger (www.fightingterror.org). Mr. Ghadry has written articles and essays on Syria and the politics in the Levant.\n\nKyle Shideler is the Director of the Threat Information Office (TIO) at the Center for Security Policy. Kyle has previously served as the Director of Research and Communications for the Endowment for Middle East Truth\, as well as a Senior Researcher\, and Public Information Officer for several organizations in the field of Middle East and terrorism policy since 2006. He is a contributing author to “Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network: America and the West’s Fatal Embrace\,” and has written for numerous publications as well as briefed legislative aides\, intelligence and law enforcement officials and the general public on national security issues.\n\nSarah Stern is Founder and President of the Endowment for Middle East Truth\, (EMET). EMET educates members of Congress and their staffers through monthly seminars about the Middle East. Sarah has more than 30 years of experience on Capitol Hill\, and has helped to draft and pass many pieces of legislation\, speeches and congressional resolution including the Koby Mandell Act\, which resulted in the opening of an office in the Department of Justice entitled the Office for Justice of Victims of Overseas Terrorism which is supposed to be an advocacy group within the Department of Justice for Americans who have been killed and wounded abroad; the Syria Accountability Act; and a Resolution in support of Israel’s right to build a security fence and defend her citizens the way they deem appropriate. Her work has appeared in The New Republic\, The Middle East Quarterly\, Israel Today\, Frontpagemag.com\, Breitbart\, InFocus\, The American Thinker\, The Jerusalem Post and the Washington Jewish Week. She has appeared on television and radio\, and has spoken throughout the country\, in Israel and on Al Hurrah which is carried throughout the Middle East\, on topics including the Middle East\, terrorism\, Post Zionism\, Israel\, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict\, and related issues. Sarah is also the author of “Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network: America and the West’s Fatal Embrace\,” (Palgrave Macmillan).
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SUMMARY:EMET Briefing on Israel's Operation Protective Edge with Reuven Azar
DESCRIPTION:To watch the recording of this event please click here. \nAfter being pummeled with rockets from Gaza\, on July 7th Israel announced that it had embarked upon a military campaign entitled “Operation Protective Edge” to stop Hamas terrorist attacks from Gaza. Since the beginning of the Operation\, more than 1\,155 rockets have been fired at Israel\, including major Israel cities such as Tel-Aviv\, Jerusalem\, Haifa\, Beer Sheva\, Hadera\, and Eilat. Approximately 200 rockets were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system\, and the Israeli Defense Forces have targeted more than 1\,576 terrorist locations. \nOn Monday\, Israel conducted a special operation in Nablus\, uncovering hundreds of weapons and arresting dozens of terrorists. While rockets are raining on Israel from Gaza\, terrorists in the Judea and Samaria regularly attempt to attack Israeli civilians. \nOn Tuesday morning\, the Israeli security cabinet agreed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Hamas rejected the proposal\, calling it “a surrender\,” and about an hour after Israel accepted the truce\, a barrage of rocket fire continued to hit Israel. The Israel Defense Forces suspended strikes in Gaza for six hours; during that time\, Hamas fired 47 rockets\, causing Israel to resume its Operation. “I cannot condemn strongly enough the actions of Hamas in so brazenly firing rockets\, in multiple numbers\, in the face of a goodwill effort (to secure) a ceasefire\,” Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. \nThis year\, missiles fired from terrorists in Gaza has endangered more than 3.5 million people – approximately 40% of Israel’s population. More than 40\,000 reservists have been called up to the Gaza border last week as part of the Operation\, as Israelis live under the constant threat of rocket fire.\n\nJoin us to hear important updates on Israel’s Operation\, what is really happening in Gaza that the mainstream media is not telling you\, the severity of the terrorist threat\, and possible scenarios for the future from Reuvan Azar\, Deputy Head of Mission at the Israeli Embassy.\nLunch to be Served (Dietary Laws Observed) \nReuven Azar assumed his position as Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Israel in Washington\, DC in January 2014. He previously served as Head of Middle East Research in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). From 2010 to 2012\, Reuven was the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Israel in Amman.\n\nSince the completion of the MFA cadet training program in 1994\, he held mostly Middle East related positions\, such as Head of the Iran Sanctions Team and Director of Middle East Economic Research. During his carrier Reuven covered different aspects of cooperation and negotiations with the Palestinian Authority\, as well as research on Palestinian issues. He served four years in Cairo as Head of Economic & Trade Department at the Embassy of Israel. In a previous round in Washington\, DC (2003-2006) he served as Counselor for Political Affairs.\n\nReuven was born in Argentina in 1967 and made Aliyah (immigrated) with his family to Jerusalem\, Israel at the age of 13. He served in a Paratroopers battalion of the Israeli Defense Forces from 1985 to 1988 and was a reservist combat Sergeant up to 2008. Reuven has both an MA and BA from the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is married to Rachel and a father to Roni\, Ofir and Oren. Reuven speaks fluent Spanish and Arabic\, in addition to English and Hebrew.
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SUMMARY:Rays of Light in the Darkness  8th Annual Dinner
DESCRIPTION:Rays of Light in the Darkness 8th Annual Dinner\nJoin EMET at its Rays of Light in the Darkness 8th Annual Dinner on Wednesday\, June 18th\, as we honor the 2014 Speakers of Truth: Dr. Charles Krauthammer\, Governor Mike Huckabee\, Dr. Ashraf Ramelah\, Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL)\, and Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-IL). \nTo watch Dr. Charles Krauthammer’s speech at the dinner\, please click here. \nTo watch Ambassador Ron Dermer’s speech at the dinner\, please click here. \nTo watch Gov. Mike Huckabee’s speech at the dinner\, please click here. \nTo watch Cong. Dan Lipinski’s speech at the dinner\, please click here. \nTo watch Dr. Ashraf Ramelah’s speech at the dinner\, please click here. \nEMET annually honors luminaries who share its mission\, including members of Congress and journalists. \nEMET is the leading organization that honors bold individuals (Muslim and Christian) from the Muslim world who have had the courage to speak the truth about radical Islam and the nature of the anti-Western world from which they hail. Prior EMET honorees include: Ambassador John Bolton\, Senator Ted Cruz\, Representative Trent Franks\, Rep. Brad Sherman\, Ayaan Hirsi Ali\, Nonie Darwish\, Bridgette Gabriel\, Dr. Juhdi Zasser\, Reza Kahlili\, Mosab Hassan Yousef and many other brave individuals.
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