Documentation of the International Conference of the Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin and The Institute for National Security Studies, 21.-22. November 2015

 

Window of Opportunity or Collapse of a Region? - Western Middle East Policies and Israel after the Deal with Iran

 

The conference was supported by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)

 

Introduction and Greetings

Michael Spaney (MFFB) and Emily Landau (INSS)

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Opening panel: Combatting, Inclusion or Dialogue - Western Responses towards Islamism

  • Dr. Matthias Küntzel (Political Scientist, publicist, Hamburg)
    Misconceptions, Appeasement and Anti-Imperialism– Approaches to the Middle East (PDF)

  • Alan Johnson(Editor, Fathom Magazine)
    Jeremy Corbyn as a Symptom? – Islamism, Anti-Zionism and British Society


  • Shimon Stein (INSS)
    Do they understand the Region? - Israel’s perspective on Western Middle East Policies

Chair: Ulrike Becker (MFFB)

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Panel 2: Changing Strategic Alliances - After the Nuclear Deal with Iran

  • Emily Landau (INSS)
    The Nuclear Deal with Iran and the Threat to Israel


  • Reuel Marc Gerecht (Foundation for Defense of Democracies)
    US-Iranian Rapprochement, Sanctions Relief and the Expansion of Iranian Terror 


  • Simone Dinah Hartmann
    (Founder of STOP THE BOMB, Director of ISGAP Austria; Former vice president of operations at United Against Nuclear Iran)

    New Best Friends? Europe and Iran and the Fight against Terror

Chair: Andreas Benl (MFFB)

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Panel 3: Beyond Red Lines – Actors in the Syrian Catastrophe

 

  • Boris Reitschuster (Journalist, Author, Berlin)
    The Implications of Russia’s Intervention in Syria

Chair: Michael Spaney (MFFB)

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Panel 4: Israel and the Situation in the Middle East - regional terror and global support  

 

  • Anat Kurz (INSS)
    The Palestinian Issue: What now?

Chair: Michael Spaney (MFFB)

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Panel 5: Ways out of the Middle Eastern Tragedy?

  • Matthias Küntzel (Political Scientist, publicist, Hamburg)

 Chair: Andreas Benl (MFFB)

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