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The Middle East Forum presents this week's podcasts.
*Note: There will be no podcast on Monday, April 1, 2024. | | Israel Insider | | with Ashley Perry
Could the Supreme Court’s termination of long-standing exemptions of Haredi students from military service bring down the Israeli government?
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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 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). | | How to Defeat Iran’s Proxy Militias | | with Nicholas Krohley
Proxy political-military organizations serve as Tehran’s main tool to project hard power in the Middle East. While U.S. forces have scored some tactical successes (e.g., the assassinations of Qods Force commander Qassem Soleimani and Kitaeb Hizballah leader Abu Mahdi al Muhandis), Iran’s militias have continued to gain strength. What should U.S. strategy be? How to break Iran’s stranglehold over Iraq? How to address the Houthi challenge to global shipping?
Friday, April 5, 2024
1:00pm - 1:30pm ET
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| Nicholas Krohley founded and heads FrontLine Advisory, a research and consulting firm based in Switzerland. He is the author of The Death of the Medhi Army: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq's Most Powerful Militia (Oxford University Press, 2015). He holds a BA from Yale and MA and Ph.D. degrees from King’s College London. | | Catch up with our previous podcast episodes!
All podcasts are recorded for viewing after the event. To view past episodes, please visit our YouTube channel or our website. | | | | 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, operational, and philanthropic means, the Forum recurrently has policy ideas adopted by the U.S. government. (215) 546-5406 | www.MEForum.org | | | | |
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