The Middle East Forum presents this week's webinars.
*Note: There will be no webinar on Monday, September 25, 2023.
Israel Insider
with Ashley Perry PM Netanyahu badly wants a deal with the Saudis, which will require significant concessions to the Palestinian Authority. He also wants to keep his coalition intact. Can he thread the needle and do both?Wednesday, September 27, 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 BA from University College London and an MA from Reichman University (IDC Herzliya).
Understanding Hezbollah’s Escalation
with Amatzia Baram
Heightened provocations by Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border result from two developments. The organization has become more vulnerable within Lebanon and so needs an external diversion. Plus, it expects the Netanyahu government to respond in only limited ways. Is Hezbollah right? What are the implications of the tensions? How might Israel respond?
Friday, September 29, 2023
1:00pm - 1:30pm ET
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Amatzia Baram is professor emeritus at the University of Haifa. He has taught at the universities of Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv and Georgetown (Washington, DC). He is the author of Saddam Husayn and Islam, 1968-2003 (Johns Hopkins, 2014). Baram completed his BA, MA and PhD in the department of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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