Ralf Fücks has recently suggested utilizing NATO as the de facto security guarantor between the Israelis and Palestinians and as the stabilizing force in the greater Middle East. Fücks proposes absorbing Israel into NATO and simultaneously restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, arguing that a U.S.-European alliance can both reassure Israel and secure support from Arab states to take a hard line position against an increasingly emboldened and unruly Iran.

Rita E. Hauser is President of The Hauser Foundation and Co-Chair of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. She is an international lawyer and of counsel to the New York City law firm, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan where she was a senior partner for more than twenty years. Dr. Hauser was previously appointed by President George W. Bush to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board and to the Intelligence Oversight Board.

The New York Times Sunday Book Review calls The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life “a shrewd and plausible critique of the drift of policy since the cold war" and Publishers Weekly praises it for “exposing the folly of the current imperial strategy” of the United States.

We are pleased to invite you to a discussion with David Kimche, who served for many years as Deputy Head of the Mossad and later became Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Relations. Mr. Kimche will be discussing the current situation in Israel and the region, the prospects for a peace move, a new round of conflict or something in-between. Kimche brings his wealth of experience and depth of analysis to an assessment of the options for a comprehensive settlement, including the Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese tracks and the measures needed to move in that direction.