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There will be no podcast episode today, Monday, July 22. Please join us this Wednesday for our podcast with Ashley Perry.

Join MEF for a special hour-long panel on the 50th anniversary of the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, featuring Michael Rubin, Mine Balman, and Marios Lyssiotis.

Register to watch live at 1PM Eastern Time on 7/19 here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Turkey’s Occupation of Cyprus: 50 Years On with Michael Rubin, Mine Balman, and Marios Lyssiotis. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. July 20 marks the 50th anniversary of Turkey invasion of Cyprus. Ankara initially justified it on the grounds of protecting the island’s Turkish minority and preventing its annexation by Greece. That justification, however, when the Greek junta fell ended less than a week later, Greece reverted to...

Today at 3:00PM Eastern Time -- Join MEF for our weekly Israel Insider podcast with Ashley Perry and have your questions answered live on-air.

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: You can watch our podcast episode with Ambassador John Bolton here:

"The US and the Turbulent Middle East: Threats and Opportunities" with Ambassador John Bolton Iranian nuclear ambitions, the Hamas-Israel conflict, Red Sea shipping crisis, a rogue Türkiye, growing Chinese influence: as usual, the United States and it...

Today at 1:00PM Eastern Time – Join MEF for a live podcast with Ambassador John Bolton, who will be discussing the threats and opportunities for the U.S. in the Middle East.

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Join us today at 3:00PM ET for our weekly Israel Insider podcast with Ashley Perry and have your questions answered live.

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: You can watch our podcast episode “Back to the Future: How America Can Stop Failing in the Middle East” with Steven A. Cook here:

“Back to the Future: How America Can Stop Failing in the Middle East” with Steven A. Cook Through the Cold War, 1945-90, Washington pursued a successful Middle East policy that kept the Soviets out, oil flowing, and Israel secure. From 1990 until ...

Today at 1:00PM Eastern Time - Join MEF for a live podcast with Steven A. Cook on "How America Can Stop Failing in the Middle East." You can register for the live broadcast here and have your questions answered live:

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US statements and actions haven’t always lined up, and high-profile efforts have fallen flat; flagging pro-Israel president is likely to face renewed pressure from staff. From Lazar Berman.

Biden's Debate Flop Raises More Questions about His Often Perplexing Gaza Policy During his State of the Union address in March, US President Joe Biden announced an ambitious American initiative to get more aid into the Gaza Strip – a $230 million floating pier off the coast of the war-torn territory. With more than 32 million

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Today at 3:00PM Eastern Time -- Join us for our Israel Insider podcast series with Ashley Perry and have you questions answered live. You can register for free here:

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"Israel Victory" is more than a scholarly work—it's a call to rethink the strategies that have shaped the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The new book by Daniel Pipes is available in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle here:

Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated

Today at 2:00PM Eastern Time - Join Michael Rubin for part 7 of the webinar series "Israel's Seven-Front War."

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MEF & AJU Present: Israel's 7 Fronts- Yemen - Open Learning Examine the recent actions, regional ambitions, and strategic implications of Tehran’s proxies and its threat to Israel. MEF & AJU Presents: Israel’s 7 Fronts- Yemen This is part 7 of … MEF & AJU Present: Israel’s 7 Fronts- Yemen Read More »

Islamist Watch director Sam Westrop and Ryan Mauro on Stopping the Funding for Islamists Groups in the West at the Clarity Coalition's 2024 "Defending the West" conference:

Stopping the Funding for Islamists Groups in the West - CLARITy Coalition Sam Westrop, Director of Islamist Watch at the Middle East Forum leads a discussion with Jeff Breinholt and Ryan Mauro on tracking and stopping the funding o...

: You can watch this week's Israel Insider podcast with Alex Selsky here:

June 26, 2024 | Israel Insider with Alex Selsky Full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah appears closer than ever. If it takes place, the fighting will be of an order of magnitude greater than Israel vs...

Today at 3:00PM Eastern Time -- join us live for our Israel Insider podcast with Alex Selsky for an update on the top events going on in Israel this week and have your questions answered live.

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You are invited to join a webinar: Israel Insider with Alex Selsky. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah appears closer than ever. If it takes place, the fighting will be of an order of magnitude greater than Israel vs. Hamas. What is the likely shape of such a conflict? How will it affect civilians and infrastructure in both countries? How will outside power...

In his new book, "Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated," Daniel Pipes argues that this long struggle pits two unique and doomed mentalities that exist outside of normal politics against each other, making it so difficult to comprehend.

Available now in hardcover, paperback, and e-book here:

https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Victory-Acceptance-Palestinians-Liberated/dp/B0D6B79K67?asc_campaign=a2a8283864386ca04a5694e8b58759e6&asc_source=01HHCR42BE21N169YRVNXG01AW

The latest reports indicate that the US has declared it will give Israel its 'full support' in the event of war with Hezbollah. This appears to go hand in hand, however, with an American determination to prevent any Israeli action which might precipitate such a war. So what is the current situation? And where are things heading?

Netanyahu Must Make a Swift Decision on Hezbollah Tensions on Israel's northern border are currently at their highest point since the outbreak of hostilities in October last year. On Friday, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said: 'One rash move – one miscalculation – could trigger

"Israel's Seven-Front War - Part 5: " with Jonathan Spyer. Hosted in partnership with American Jewish University.

Israel's Seven-Front War: #5 Iraq with Jonathan Spyer 21 years after the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the US invasion, Iraq remains a divided, unstable and strife ridden society. The current government of Pri...

"The Jewish state needs a comprehensive strategy against the threat from Lebanon," writes Jonathan Spyer.

https://www.meforum.org/65982/no-time-to-fiddle-as-hezbollah-burns-northern

Panel: Reforming Middle East Studies and Ethnic Studies in American Universities

Featuring Benjamin Baird, Winfield Myers, Reed Rubinstein, and Brandy Shufutinsky.

Reforming Middle East Studies and Ethnic Studies in American Universities How can Americans leverage the public’s disgust with the ongoing turmoil and antisemitism on campuses nationwide to either depoliticize or marginalize Middle...

: You can watch our Israel Insider podcast with Ashley Perry from 6/19/2024 here:

June 19, 2024 | Israel Insider with Ashley Perry Hezbollah attacks on a daily basis mean the Israel-Lebanon border region has been deserted for many months. More than 65000 Israelis displaced have been disp...

Join us today at 3:00PM Eastern Time for our Israel Insider podcast with Ashley Perry.

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"Islamism's Changing Treads and Ideological Divisions" with Sam Westrop, Dexter Van Zile, and Ryan Mauro:

Islamism's Changing Trends and Ideological Divisions In contrast to 9/11, which spurred a huge American debate over Islam and Islamism, jihad, and related concepts, conversations around the Hamas massacre on Oc...

"Colonial settlement? Jewish immigration or Aliyah to Israel has been paralleled over the last 150 years by large scale Arab and Muslim immigration," writes Daniel Pipes in the Summer 2024 issue of Middle East Quarterly.

A Muslim Aliyah Paralleled the Jewish Aliyah: Part I, to 1948 "So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country [Palestine] and multiplied till their population has increased."— Winston Churchill in 1938 "[T]he Arab immigration into Palestine since 1921 has vastly exceeded the total Jewish

Dexter Van Zile, managing editor of MEF's Focus on Western Islamism publication, on the Never Again is Now Podcast: "Why Students Join the Campus Protests"

U.S. -- Why students join the campus protests -- Ep. #145 Dexter Van Zile, investigative journalist and managing editor of the Focus on Western Islamism for the Middle East Forum, visited the campus protests and exp...

"Journalist" and Hamas terrorist Abdullah al-Jamal was slain when Israeli forces freed Andrey Kozlov, Almog Meir Jan and Shlomi Ziv. From Jonathan Spyer.

Abdallah Aljamal: 'Prisoners' Rights' Activist Held, Abused Israeli Hostages Further evidence is emerging of the wide-reaching activities of the late Abdullah al-Jamal (his name is sometimes spelled Abdallah Aljamal), the Palestinian journalist who in his spare time served also as the host/jailer for three of the four kidnapped

This year, Border Patrol agents overrun by the mass migration crisis have accidentally released at least seven immigrants who were on the FBI's terrorism watch list.

Stopping Border-Crossing Terrorists Requires Political Will, not New Policies Near-misses from the worst mass migration border crisis in American history keep coming at us like machine-gun fire. This month, FBI counterterrorism agents arrested six Tajikistani nationals on terrorism charges after they illegally crossed the

"Iran's Success at Destabilizing the Region and How to Respond" - A panel discussion from MEF's 30th anniversary policy conference with Jonathan Spyer, Alireza Nader, Hanin Gaddar and Saeid Golkar:

Iran's Success at Destabilizing the Region and How to Respond How can the West effectively combat Iran’s proxy militias, counter its nuclear ambitions, and exploit the regime’s internal vulnerabilities? This Panel will ...

It is essential not to play into Turkey's hands and reward intransigence or suggest any legitimacy to northern Cyprus. Washington should hold Ankara to account for the occupation, sanctioning as need be. From Michael Rubin.

The West Should Stop Acquiescing to Turkey's Aggression in Northern Cyprus Fifty years ago next month, Turkish troops poured into Cyprus and seized one-third of the island. Contrary to Turkish propaganda, the Turkish Army's seizure of one-third the island was not to protect Cypriot Muslims. Any threat to them had passed and