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Presented in partnership with American Jewish University |
October 7: One Year Later with Gregg Roman and Jonathan Spyer |
Monday, October 7, 2024
2:00PM Eastern Time |
October 7, 2023 was a more pivotal moment than anyone at the time imagined. Just one day later, Hezbollah attacked Israel and expanded the war. Then, Israel launched its unprecedented war of “total victory” against Hamas. The Houthis soon joined in, as later did the Iranian military itself. By now, the direct conflict encompasses seven fronts. Beyond the region, Oct. 7 has roiled politics, finance, campuses, and more throughout the West. A year in, who is winning and losing? What are current trends? What will the massacre’s legacy be? |
Gregg Roman is the director of the Middle East Forum. He previously served as the political advisor to the deputy foreign minister of Israel and worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Roman attended American University in Washington, D.C., and the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya, Israel, where he studied national security studies and political communications. Jonathan Spyer is director of research at the Middle East Forum and editor of the Middle East Quarterly. He has lived and worked extensively as a journalist in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel (where he is resident). He has a BSc from the London School of Economics, an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and a PhD, also from the LSE. |
Israel Insider with Ashley Perry |
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
3:00PM Eastern Time |
Hezbollah attacks on Israel have led to its decapitation. But Israel has not yet responded to the second direct attack from Iran. Is a large-scale, direct strike on Iran in the works? If so, what might the targets be? Does such an attack represent Israel’s best option? |
Ashley Perry is an advisor to the Middle East Forum’s Israel office. He served as adviser 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 U.K., he moved to Israel in 2001. He holds a B.A. from University College London and an M.A. from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya). |
The Middle East Forum, an activist think tank, deals with the Middle East, Islamism, U.S. foreign policy, and related topics, urging bold measures to protect Americans and their allies. Pursuing its goals via intellectual and operational means, the Forum recurrently has policy ideas adopted by the U.S. government. |
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