12:30-2:00 p.m Public Forum – The Palestine Center
After being elected as Israel’s Prime Minister in 1996, Binyamin Netanyahu called on a group of policy advisors in the United States to outline policy recommendations and future strategies Israel can adopt in dealing with the U.S., the Palestinians and the Arab countries. The group, which included Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser, produced a document called, “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” The document, which has been made public and analyzed by Smith and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, is being re-examined because many of the recommendations, mainly toppling the government of Iraq, moving away from the land for peace formula with the Palestinians and the destabilization of “regional challengers” such as Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, are in full implementation.
Grant Smith is director of research at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, a nonprofit that studies the foreign policy formulation process in Washington, D.C.
This briefing is free and open to the public. However, registration is required. To register, call 202-338-1290 (ext. 11) or email your name, affiliation, and contact information to RSVP. A light lunch will be served to registered guests at 12:30 p.m. The briefing and “Q and A” will follow from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Please register no later than noon Monday, 29 August 2006.
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