BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:33251@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240725T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240725T130000 DTSTAMP:20240722T203545Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/us-israel-relations-after-prime-min ister-benjamin-netanyahus-visit/ SUMMARY:US- Israel Relations After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Visi t DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL\n\n\nThe attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7 and Israel's subseq uent war in Gaza have posed unprecedented challenges for the United States ' relationship with Israel. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington\, DC\, next week to meet President Joe Biden and addres s a joint session of Congress\, there will be a long list of issues on the agenda: the Gaza war\, tensions with Hezbollah in Lebanon\, ongoing chall enges posed by Iran\, and the future prospects for a normalization accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia.\n\nFollowing Prime Minister Benjamin Neta nyahu's remarks to Congress\, MEI will convene an expert panel to assess t he state of the US-Israeli bilateral relationship\, its impact on the poli tical situations in both countries\, as well as progress on the US diploma tic efforts to end the Gaza war. What milestones must be reached to end th e conflict in Gaza and build a diplomatic framework for post-war reconstru ction? What would a post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization period look like and how long will it last? Is a pathway toward a two-state solut ion\, which the US and all of its Arab partners support\, still possible? Please join us as our scholars address these and related questions.\nSpeak ers\nAaron David Miller\nSenior Fellow\, Carnegie Endowment for Internatio nal Peace\n\nDavid Schenker\nTaube Senior Fellow and Director of the Arab Politics Program\, The Washington Institute\n\nShira Efron\nDiane and Guil ford Glazer Foundation Senior Director of Policy Research\, Israel Policy Forum\n\n(Moderator) Brian Katulis\nSenior Fellow for US Foreign Policy\, Middle East Institute\nExtended Speaker Biographies\nAaron David Miller is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, focus ing on U.S. foreign policy. He has written five books\, including his most recent\, The end of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have ( and Doesn’t W ant) Another Great President (Palgrave\, 2014) and The Much Too Promised L and: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam\, 2008). He received his PhD in Middle East and U.S. diplomatic history from the Univ ersity of Michigan in 1977. Between 1978 and 2003\, Miller served at the S tate Department as an historian\, analyst\, negotiator\, and advisor to Re publican and Democratic secretaries of state\, where he helped formulate U .S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process\, most rec ently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations. He also served as the deputy special Middle East coordinator for Arab-Israeli negotiation s\, senior member of the State Department's policy planning staff\, in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research\, and in the office of the historian. \n\nDavid Schenker is a a Senior Fellow and Director of the Program on Ar ab Politics at The Washington Institute. Confirmed by the Senate on June 5 \, 2019\, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affai rs through January 2021. As Assistant Secretary\, Mr. Schenker was the pri nciple Middle East advisor to the Secretary of State and the senior U.S. g overnment official overseeing the conduct of U.S. policy and diplomacy in a region stretching from Morocco to Iran to Yemen.  Previously\, from 200 2-2006\, Mr. Schenker served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as Levant Country Director\, the Pentagon's top policy aide to the Arab count ries of the Levant. In that capacity\, he was responsible for advising the secretary and other senior Pentagon leadership on the military and politi cal affairs of Syria\, Lebanon\, Jordan\, and the Palestinian territories. He was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exception al Civilian Service in 2005.\n\nShira Efron is the Diane and Guilford Glaz er Foundation Senior Director of Policy Research. Previously\, she spent t wo decades as a Middle East analyst with various U.S. think tanks\, includ ing the RAND Corporation\, where she founded and led the Israel program be tween 2016-2022\, the Center for American progress\, and Middle East Insti tute\, and the Tel Aviv based institute for National Security Studies. IN 2020-2021\, she was a consultant with the U.N. country team in Jerusalem\, where she focused on access and movement issues in Gaza. She has a PhD an d MPhil in policy analysis from RAND's Graduate School\, an MA in internat ional relations/international business from New York University\, and a BS c in biology (major) and computer science (minor) from Tel Aviv University .\n\nBrian Katulis is Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Middle East Institute. He was formerly a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP)\, where he built the Center’s Middle East program and al so worked on broader issues related to U.S. national security. He has prod uced influential studies that have shaped important discussions around reg ional policy\, often providing expert testimony to key congressional commi ttees on his findings. Katulis has also conducted extensive research in co untries such as Egypt\, Israel\, Jordan\, and the Palestinian territories. His past experience includes work at the National Security Council and th e U.S. Departments of State and Defense. He holds a Master in Public Affai rs from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs\ , and a Bachelor of Arts in history and Arab and Islamic Studies from Vill anova University.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n(Photo by MIRIAM ALSTER/POOL/AF P via Getty Images)\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/07/temp-53-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR