On Wednesday, June 3rd, The Endowment for Middle East Truth, together with the Heritage Foundation, held a ground-breaking seminar :
“New Thinking for Old Problems: the Challenges of Middle East Peace-Making under the Shadow of the Iranian Threat.”
The four hour seminar featured a keynote address by Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), and was one of a series of seminars produced by EMET as part of the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Policy Seminar Series.
The Honorable Sam Brownback, Member United States Senate (Republican, Kansas)
The Honorable Doug Lamborn, United States House of Representatives, (Republican, Colorado)
Major General Giora Eiland, (Res). Former Head of the Israeli National Security Council, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies
Major General (Res.) Yaakov Amidror, Former Commander of Israel’s National Defense College, Program Director, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
May 13th, 2009 “Profiles in Courage” Congressional Staffer Briefing
Wednesday, the Endowment for Middle East Truth held a staffer briefing, sponsored by the Adelson Family Foundation, as part of the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Policy Seminar Series. She thanked the Adelson Family Foundation for enabling this to come about.
EMET is proud to link efforts with The Center
for Security Policy in Washington, as part of the campaign
to ensure that Americans divest from companies who do business
with states that sponsor terrorist organizations, or who are,
themselves, terrorist regimes. By this, we will weaken
the governments of Kim Jung Il of North Korea and Mahamoud
Ahamdinajad of Iran. We will be hitting them in the pocket
book, where it hurts.
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved” -- George MacDonald
From the commitments exchanged between a man and his wife, to those that are exchanged between nations, trust is the cement that adheres all human relationships together.
Showdown Time for Iran’s Military Dictatorship By Clare M. Lopez 19 June 2009
With Iranians taking to the streets again by the hundreds of thousands, memories flash back to 1979, the last time that sheer mass of numbers fired with hatred of tyranny toppled an autocrat in Tehran.
Missiles, Bombs and Tweets By Sarah N. Stern, June 19, 2009
At this point, we are still unsure whether or not the beautiful dissident struggle for increasing freedoms under the Iranian theocratic boot will flower like the orange revolution of the Ukraine in 2004 to 2005, or will be squelched like the pro-democracy movement of Tiananmen Square, China in 1989.
Washington - June 21, 2009 (Samer Hussein) - Syrians are learning the Internet faster than the regime can use it to stifle their freedom. Using proxy servers and new tools propagating inside Syria (to remain nameless), Syrians are able to visit and participate in any web site, including the blocked ones like Facebook.
I’ve received what purports to be a statement from Mousavi’s Office in Tehran. Like everyone else covering the revolution, I get a lot of material that can’t be authenticated, and one must always take such material with a healthy dose of skepticism.
In the punishing sun of the Middle East one is often prone to seeing desert mirages. The climate of the desert is so much harsher than what we find it easy to wrap our minds around, here in the West.
Some more congressional thoughts on settlements
By Eric Fingerhut ·
June 5, 2009
Rep. Eliot Engel (DN.Y.) says he believes Israel needs to
make concessions on settlements, but thinks they must be
made in concert with some kind of concessions
from the Palestinians at the same time.
In the June 4th speech in Cairo, President Obama spoke about the bonds America shares with Israel, saying:
“America's strong bonds with Israel are well known. This bond is unbreakable. It is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied.”
This week the entire country of Israel performed a security exercise. At 11:00am a siren sounded and all of us, every man, woman and child had to take shelter.
President Obama repeatedly insists that American foreign policy be conducted with modesty and humility. Above all, there will be no more "dictating" to other countries. We should "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," he told the G-20 summit.
Mr. President: On June 4, 2009 in a Keynote Address to the Muslim world delivered from Cairo you asserted that it is "undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland."
When President Obama met with Prime Minister Netanyahu a couple of weeks ago, he clearly stated that he expected Israel to stop all building activities beyond the 1949 armistice lines.
All lies and jest. Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest - "The Boxer," Paul Simon
President Barack Obama emerged from his meeting last week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanayhu with these words: "If there is a linkage between Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, I personally believe it actually runs the other way. To the extent that we can make peace to the Palestinians and the Israelis, then I think that it actually strengthens our hand in the international community in dealing with the Iranian threat."
Remarks at the “Rays of Light in the Darkness Dinner” May 6, 2009
By Sarah N. Stern
I often wonder, “What provokes a person to speak the truth when he knows that those very words, that are so necessary to be heard, might possibly result in a huge loss of precious political capitol, social exclusion from one’s community, family and friends, or might even incur the risk of physical persecution or of sentencing oneself to an early death?
'Rays of Light'Five honored for fighting terrorism by Suzanne Pollak
Special to WJW
A former Islamic extremist, two senators, a former CIA director and a Lebanese man who missed his parents' funerals rather than be silenced were honored last week as "Rays of Light in the Darkness" during EMET-the Endowment for Middle East Truth's third annual awards dinner.
