As we enter into the 411th day of the war that Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and the Islamic Republic of Iran have launched against the state of Israel, we find ourselves asking many questions. Did the October 26th Israeli attack on Iran eliminate any or much of the threat emanating from Iran? Will Israel attack the Iranian oil fields of nuclear facilities? Will the new administration enable Israel to attack these Iranian facilities? How is the Israeli will to fight holding up, after more than a year in battle, on various fronts? Has fatigue set in, among the IDF, the reserves, the government and the people? What do you believe a proper response might be to Amos Hochstein’s proposal? How is it any different from UN Security Council Resolution 1701? How will Israel be able to secure itself from a re-emergence of Hamas and Hezbollah? Can Israel depend on foreign forces to be able to determine the boundaries between itself and Lebanon, or the state of Israel and Gaza? Will Lebanon be able to reconstitute itself without Hezbollah? What is the threat like emanating out of Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank)? How have the Israeli Arabs responded to this war, and how have the Palestinians responded? Who will replace UNRWA in Gaza, Jerusalem, in Judea and Samaria?
To answer these and many other questions are: Dan Diker – President of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
Dr. Dan Diker, Senior Fellow and longtime Director of the Counter-Political Warfare Project at the Jerusalem Center, is former Secretary-General of the World Jewish Congress and Research Fellow of the International Institute for Counter Terrorism at Reichman University (formerly IDC, Herzliya). He has written six books exposing the “apartheid antisemitism” phenomenon in North America, and has authored studies on Iran’s race for regional supremacy and Israel’s need for defensible borders
Khaled Abu Toameh – Senior Fellow, Arab and Palestinian Affairs
Khaled Abu Toameh is an award-winning Israeli Arab journalist, lecturer, and documentary filmmaker specializing in Palestinian affairs. A Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, he has also worked as a senior producer for NBC in the Middle East and has reported on events in the West Bank and Gaza for several media outlets.
