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Volume 15, Issue 88

“I call on the opposition to behave responsibly. We have one country, one army, and one people. We must not harm them,”

---Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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This Week's Featured Article
Requiem for a Descending Star
By Sarah Stern | January 3, 2023
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(January 3, 2023 / JNS ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) ) Growing up in the heady days after World War II, after the military defeat of the Nazis and the Japanese, Pax Americana reigned supreme throughout the globe. It looked to many of us that there was an inevitable march of history away from totalitarianism and towards what was moral and what was right, that the liberal world order, with America at both the military and economic helm, would forever reign supreme.

Our spirits were further buoyed in 1991 at the fall of the Berlin wall. This seemed to confirm that it was simply a rational historical inevitability for nations to embrace Western democracy. Our Western liberal canon of philosophers, such as Emmanuel Kant, argued in his Metaphysics of Morals that every individual man has an innate right to freedom and that there ought to be a social contract to ensure the universal rights of man.

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Foreign policy expert Dr. Jonathan Schanzer published an insightful report on the state of Israeli/Jordanian relations entitled, Neither Here Nor There: Jordan and the Abraham Accords, in which he summarized, “For the two decades that followed [the 1994 peace agreement between Israel and Jordan], observers referred to Jordanian-Israeli ties as the “warm peace,” particularly compared to the frosty ties Israel maintained with Egypt and the collapse of Oslo. However, since 2020, if not before then, Jordanian peace has turned decidedly cold. It is especially frigid now compared to the rapidly growing ties between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco. Even relations between Israel and Egypt have improved. With rhetoric that increasingly echoes the sentiments of rejectionist Arab nationalists or even Islamists, Jordan’s current policies appear to run counter to the current trendlines of the Middle East…. All of this should come as unwelcome news to the United States and to America’s Middle
East allies. In anticipation of intensifying great power competition with China, and perhaps to a lesser extent Russia, it is crucial for Washington to project unity among allies in the Middle East.” Join us to hear an in-depth discussion with Dr. Schanzer on these critically important issues including strategies for both the U.S. and Jordan to employ in order to maintain and strengthen the decades-long peace between Israel and Jordan

About the Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is senior vice president for research at FDD, where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. He is also on the leadership team of FDD’s Center on Economic and Financial Power, a project on the use of financial and economic power as a tool of statecraft.

Jonathan previously worked as a terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he played an integral role in the designation of numerous terrorist financiers. He has held previous think tank research positions at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Middle East Forum.

Jonathan has written hundreds of articles on the Middle East, along with more than a dozen monographs and chapters for edited volumes. His new book, Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) (FDD Press 2021), challenges and corrects some of the wildly inaccurate news reported during the conflict. It is the first book published on the war. His three other books have made unique contributions to the field. State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Unmaking of the Palestinian State ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) argues the main roadblock to Palestinian statehood is the Palestinian Authority’s political dysfunction and mismanagement. Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) (Palgrave Macmillan 2008) is
still the only book on the market that analyzes the ongoing Palestinian civil war. Al-Qaeda’s Armies: Middle East Affiliate Groups and the Next Generation of Terror ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) (Washington Institute for Near East Policy 2004) was the first to explore the al-Qaeda franchises of the Middle East.

Jonathan often testifies before Congress and publishes widely in the American and international media. He has appeared on American television channels such as Fox News and CNN, and Arabic language television channels such as Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera.
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Next Week's Webinar


** The Incoming Israeli Government’s Policies and Challenges
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January 11, 2023 - 12 PM ET

As the new Israeli government begins its work, its challenges are as multiple as they are complex. Many critics outside of Israel have already threatened to cut off ties with the new government, even before they have assumed office. Before passing judgment on the incoming Israeli administration is essential to have an understanding of the actual policies of this new government and some of the many challenges that this government and the state of Israel are currently facing in the Middle East.

Listen to the highly decorated Israeli Brigadier General Amir Avivi as he examines the complicated situation facing this government and some of its multiple challenges.


About Amir Avivi:

Auditing and Consulting Department of the Israeli Defense Establishment (including the Israel Defense Force, the Ministry of Defense, and Israeli Military Industries). In that position, Avivi managed more than 100 military auditors and advisors. He was responsible for auditing military readiness, budgeting, procurement, projects, bids, cyber, logistics, infrastructure, and operations. Avivi fulfilled various command positions in the Corps of Engineers, leading thousands of soldiers in a dynamic combat environment.

Avivi served as Brigade commander, Deputy Division commander, and head of the Military School of Engineers. He also served as the aide-de-camp for the Chief of the General Staff of the IDF, Lt. General Moshe “Bogie” Yaalon. Avivi was at the heart of the policy-making process in the Israeli Government and Defense establishment during that term. Avivi also serves as the Principal of the New State Solution working group. Avivi is the Founder & CEO of Habithonistim.
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** Students in Iran are risking everything to rise up against the government ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Washington Post
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** Iran Upholds Death Sentences for Teenage Protesters ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Bloomberg
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** UK reportedly set to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as terrorist organization ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** Iranian Dissident Abolfazl Ghadyani: Reform Is Impossible – Iran's Islamic Regime Must Go ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - MEMRI
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** Lapid plans US trip to rally Jewish groups against Netanyahu ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - JNS
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** Netanyahu Pledges Open Opposition to Return of Iran Nuclear Deal ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Bloomberg
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** Israeli missile strikes put Damascus airport out of service ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - AP
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** Israel ranks among 10 most powerful countries in annual list; 4th strongest military ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** UN seeks top court opinion on Israeli occupation ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - BBC
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** Israel releases longest-serving Palestinian prisoner ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - BBC
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** Netanyahu to make a first official trip to UAE, possibly as early as next week ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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** U.S.-Saudi Tensions Ease as Concerns About Iran Grow ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - WSJ
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** UN condemned Israel more than all other countries combined in 2022 ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Times of Israel
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A family finds swastikas in the lawn as antisemitism surges ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - The Washington Post

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** With antisemitism on the rise, American Jewish groups aim to take a stand against threats ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Fox News
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** Blinken reiterates US position on two-state solution with new Israeli counterpart ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - The Hill
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** The US could be regretting Obama's vision for the Middle East ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - The National
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** US amb. to Israel: We don't like provocative actions on Temple Mount ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) ([link removed](Y_COPY_01)&mc_cid=ce35ed3267&mc_eid=UNIQID) - Jerusalem Post
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