Forthcoming Weekly Webinar Offerings from the Middle East Forum for October 16 - October 20

Wider Implications of the Fighting in Gaza
with Aryeh Lightstone
The outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas has profound diplomatic implications for the Middle East, and the world. With IDF troops poised to enter Gaza, two US aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean, and Hizballah in Lebanon carrying out ongoing rocket and missile fire against Israeli targets, the chance of a wider conflict is now very real. What are the stakes in the current conflict? What are the implications for Israel’s relations with the Arab world?
Monday, October 16, 2023
1:00pm - 1:30pm ET
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Aryeh Lightstone served as senior advisor to the U.S. ambassador to Israel for David Friedman in 2017-21. In that role, he helped advance U.S.-Israel relations with a focus on economic development and technology cooperation. He also worked on opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and its merger with the Jerusalem consulate. He is the author of Let My People Know (Encounter Books, 2022), an inside account of the Abraham Accords. He has a B.A. from Yeshiva University.

Israel Insider

with Ashley Perry
Israel is at war. What is happening and why? Have your questions answered.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
3:00pm - 3:30pm ET
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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. He is president of Reconectar, an organization dedicated to relinking the over 200 million descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jews to Israel and Jewish life. Originally from the UK, he moved to Israel in 2001. He holds a B.A. from University College London and an MA from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).

Just like Israel’s entry into the disastrous Oslo Accords, its failure to anticipate the Oct. 7 attack was predicated on the same illusory belief: that the Jewish state can tame genocidal enemies by offering them incentives. Whence originates this misconception? Will the lesson finally be learned? What is a better policy?

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Kenneth Levin is a psychiatrist, historian and author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege (Smith and Kraus, 2005). He was a member of the psychiatric faculty at Harvard Medical School for four decades, has taught at various psychoanalytic training institutes in Boston, and maintained a private practice. Dr. Levin holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.A./M.A. from Oxford University, an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University.