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Volume 16, Issue 48

"This is a historic day for the Middle East. The collapse of the Assad regime, the tyranny in Damascus, offers great opportunity but also is fraught with significant dangers. This collapse is the direct result of our forceful action against Hezbollah and Iran, Assad's main supporters. It set off a chain reaction of all those who want to free themselves from this tyranny and its oppression.”

--Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, December 8, 2024

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** By Sarah Stern | December 9, 2024
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On October 7th, 2023, Israel was ambushed by the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas. The attack, underwritten by the Islamic Republic of Iran, unleashed unspeakable terrors on the Israeli population, however, a legion of figures in academia, the media, international governmental and non-governmental organizations including the United Nations, and the United States nonetheless declared support for Palestine, the perpetrator of the atrocities. In The Battle for the Jewish State, Victoria Coates explains why Israel exists, why it is worthy of remaining a critical ally of the United States, and why critical race theorists identified Israel and the U.S. as the most pernicious examples of “settler colonialism” while explaining how the current conflict in Israel is not a regional issue to be resolved through an interminable diplomatic peace process. Rather, it is a broader military and cultural war that must be won for the sake not only of Israel, but of the United States as well. Joining
us to discuss her book as well as regional issues surrounding the Israel/Palestinian conflict and Islamic Republic’s multi-front war on Israel is Middle East expert Victoria Coates.

About the Speaker: Victoria Coates is Vice President of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Coates is an academic and policy maker with senior experience across the U.S. government in the Congress, White House, and Department of Energy. She previously served as a Senior Fellow in international relations and national security in Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, where she focused on the Middle East and North Africa, U.S. energy security and strategy, and countering the threat from the People’s Republic of China.

Coates served as the Director of Research in (former) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s personal office, joined (then) Governor of Texas Rick Perry’s primary campaign for President in 2011 as a Senior Advisor, and continued as a consultant to Governor Perry on foreign policy until 2013, when she accepted the position of Senior Advisor for National Security in Senator Ted Cruz’s office.

Coates joined (then) President Elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team for the National Security Council staff in 2016, and following the Inauguration, she was appointed to the NSC as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Communications. Coates subsequently served as Senior Director for International Negotiations and for Middle Eastern Affairs, before being named Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle Eastern and North African Affairs in 2019.

Coates is the author and presenter of dozens of publications and conference papers worldwide on the intersections of art and history, including David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art (Encounter Books, 2016) and the forthcoming Seeing the Light: A History of Christianity in Twelve Works of Art (under contract with Encounter Books), which are part of a projected trilogy on the key tenets of Western Civilization: democracy, the Judeo-Christian moral code, and the primacy of the individual.

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