After Hamas terrorists murdered more than 1400 Israelis and others, and kidnapped 239 on October 7, Israel unfolded a systematic military response to eliminate Hamas. The political tectonic plates were shaken. Joining us for the seventh CIE webinar to provide insights and analyses are Professor Shai Feldman, the Raymond Frankel Chair at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies, who from 2019 to 2022 was the president of Sapir College in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip; Alan Makovsky, a senior fellow for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, a specialist on Turkey who served from 2001 to 2013 as a senior staff member on the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the U.S. House of Representatives; and Professor Yitzhak Reiter, who heads the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program at Ashkelon Academic College and from 1978 to 1987 was deputy adviser of Arab affairs for Prime Ministers Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres. He is an authority on Jerusalem in Muslim and Jewish identities. CIE President Ken Stein moderates the Nov. 22, 2023, webinar.
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