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The Middle East Forum presents this week's podcasts.

*Note: There will be no podcast on Monday, April 29, 2024.

Israel Insider

with Ashley Perry

The government of Israel is simultaneously preparing to destroy Hamas in Rafah and to negotiate with it in Cairo. What are the dynamics of this self-contradiction? Will military pressure soften Hamas on the hostage issue? Or will Hamas drag out the negotiations in the hope to prevent the Rafah operation?  

Wednesday, May 1, 2024
3:00pm - 3:30pm ET

Online:
Click here to join just before 3:00pm ET
By Phone:
US:  +17193594580,,88251746702#

Ashley Perry is an advisor to the Middle East Forum’s Israel office. He served as advisor to Israel's minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister in 2009-15, and has also worked with Israel's Ministers of Intelligence, Agriculture and Rural Development, Energy, Water and Infrastructure, Defense, Tourism, Internal Security, and Immigrant Absorption and as an advisor to The Negev Forum. Originally from the UK, he moved to Israel in 2001. He holds a BA from University College London and an MA from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

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