On October 28, the day after Israel voted and a week before the US midterms, AIC held a town hall on what the midterms could mean for Israel. Joel Rayburn, former US Special Envoy for Syria and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, took the whole hour. Joel Rubin was meant to join him. A technical problem with Teams kept him out, and we’ll have Rubin back for a conversation of his own.
This is a shorter cut of that evening. Rayburn talks about:
0:53 Whether Israel stays a bipartisan issue in Washington
3:56 What Congress can and can’t do on Iran
8:39 Campus antisemitism, and why he’d start by enforcing the laws we already have
13:26 What the roughly $4 billion a year in aid actually buys
18:43 Your questions: is Iran closer to a nuclear weapon?
20:08 Qatar: the air base, Hamas, and the money in American universities
24:46 Syria and the Golan
26:02 Why the US-Israel tech alliance may matter even more than the military one
The full hour, with every question, is on AIC’s YouTube channel.
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