Understanding the Mayhem of the Middle East — Panel Discussion — Z3 Conference 2024

Описание: This panel was recorded on November 17, 2024.
The past year has brought dramatic changes to the Middle East, overturning long-standing assumptions about geopolitics, terrorism and the prospects for peace. As the war unfolds, our panelists from the Z3 Conference bring different perspectives on what so many decision-makers, experts and commentators got wrong and what the future holds for the most volatile region on earth.

About Our Moderator & Panelists:

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is an American writer and analyst who grew up in Gaza City, having left in 2005 as a teenage exchange student to the United States. He writes extensively on Gaza’s political and humanitarian affairs and has been an outspoken critic of Hamas and a promoter of coexistence and peace as the only path forward between Palestinians and Israelis. Alkhatib is a resident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs. He has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a master’s in intelligence and national security studies. His writing has been published in US and Israeli outlets, and his opinions and comments have been featured in the international press.

Prof. Chanan Tigay is Editor-in-Chief of J. The Jewish News of Northern California; author of The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible (HarperCollins), winner of the Anne & Robert Cowan Writers Prize and finalist for the Sami Rohr book prize; and is an associate professor at San Francisco State University, where he serves as chair of the Creative Writing Department. Among other postings, Tigay has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the Jerusalem bureau of Agence France-Presse; 9-11 and the church abuse scandals for AFP’s New York bureau; the anthrax attacks and Ground Zero recovery work for United Press International; and the United Nations for The Jerusalem Report magazine.

Maggie Feldman-Piltch makes national security make sense. She is the National Security Fellow at the Wilson Center's Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) and creator of Non-State Actress, a multi-media project with an audience of more than 250,000 in its first year. She has more than a decade of experience across the national security and defense apparatus, working on projects for the Departments of Defense, State, and Homeland Security and partnering with the Department of Treasury, and several federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. In addition to her own platforms, Maggie’s analysis and contributions appear on CNBC, NPR, PBS, Sinclair Media and around the world on NOVA and CNN International and in Teen Vogue, Forbes, Foreign Policy, and Latin American Advisor.

Nadav Eyal is one of Israel's most prominent journalists and a winner of the Sokolov Award—Israel's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. He writes columns for Yediot Ahronot and Ynet, Israel's most widely circulated newspaper and news website, respectively. Beginning on October 7, 2023, he has focused his work on stories and analyses related to the massacres perpetrated in Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza and the northern border of Israel, including reporting multiple times from the field. He also serves as a senior commentator for Channel 12, one of Israel's two commercial channels. Eyal authored the bestseller "REVOLT, the Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization," which was published in 2021 by Ecco HarperCollins (USA) and Picador (UK), and has been translated into multiple languages, including Korean, Thai and Chinese.

00:00 Welcome and Introduction
04:02 Personal Perspectives on the Conflict
09:25 The Role of Technology and Communication
09:55 Historical Context and Current Implications
13:39 Speculations on Trump's Second Term
27:17 Complexities of Hostage Negotiations
29:40 Global Interconnections and Regional Actors
32:26 U.S. Army's Preparedness and Ideological Conflicts
33:44 Iran's Strategic Moves and Israel's Response
37:19 Hezbollah's Miscalculation and Israel's Deterrence
44:14 The Need for Peace and Conflict Resolution
49:37 Palestinian Perspectives and Leadership Failures
55:57 The Role of International Support and Campus Protests
01:02:30 Final Thoughts and Call to Action