Trump Wins: What it Means for the Middle East
President-elect Donald Trump will be returning to the White House at a critical moment for the Middle East. Iran is on the precipice of nuclear weapons capability and expected to attack Israel directly for the third time in seven months. Meanwhile, Israel is still engaged in combat operations against Iranian proxies Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, looking to the United States to provide the armaments it needs to enable its success. Gulf Arab countries have been waiting out the conflict and hedging their bets, with Saudi Arabia in particular entertaining both normalization with Israel and closer ties with Iran.
Join JINSA for a discussion of how a new Trump administration might address these challenges and what its policies toward Israel, Iran, and the Middle East might look like. The conversation will feature member of JINSA’s Iran Policy Project and Gaza Futures Task Force Amb. Elliott Abrams and JINSA Fellow Gabriel Noronha. The discussion will be moderated by JINSA’s President & CEO Michael Makovsky, PhD.
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Friday, November 8 |
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Amb. Elliott Abrams Amb. Elliott Abrams is a member of JINSA’s Gaza Futures Task Force and Iran Policy Project and senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, DC. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the administration of Donald Trump. |
Gabriel Noronha Gabriel Noronha joined JINSA in June 2022 as a fellow in the Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy. From 2019 to 2021, he served as Special Advisor for the Iran Action Group at the U.S. Department of State, where he coordinated policy and directed the State Department’s communications and congressional affairs for Iran. |
Michael Makovsky, PhD Michael Makovsky is President and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), which he joined in 2013. A U.S. national security expert, he has worked extensively on U.S. policy toward Iran’s nuclear program, Israel, and the broader Middle East, as well as the intersection of international energy markets and politics with U.S. national security. |