A News-Making Anniversary Celebration
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Washington Institute celebrated its 30th anniversary last week in appropriate fashion: by bringing together policymakers, addressing current challenges, and making headlines.
The 2015 Soref Symposium featured major addresses by Vice President Joe Biden, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
The Institute used the occasion of its anniversary conference to release a wide-ranging policy document to help inform the final two years of the Obama administration. Written by a bipartisan group that included two former national security advisors, the paper asserts that multiple conflicts are undermining the entire architecture of the Middle East state system: "Should this weakening trend continue, we will inevitably be forced to contend with plots against not just our friends but also against the American homeland."
Media Highlights
CNN
“Joe Biden pushes Iran deal”
Politico
“Joe Biden's latest charm offensive”
Washington Post
“Read In: Haikus and Sake Edition”
Bloomberg
“Obama's New Answers on Iran Fall Flat”
Times of Israel
“Biden: Critics of Iran nuclear deal 'don't get it'”
Washington Post
“As Iran runs amok, freshmen senators go off the rails”
Jerusalem Post
“Analysis: Differentiating between a wave of pressure and a diplomatic tsunami”
The New Yorker
“Madam Secretary' and the Real Iran Deal”
The Tower
“Treasury Secretary's Talk Fails to Reassure Critics of Iran Nuclear Deal”
i24
“Biden pushes Iran deal while reaffirming Obama's support for Israel”
International Business Times
“Iran Nuclear Deal: Israel 'Hysteria' Downplayed by John Kerry, US Secretary of State Says Israel Safer with Deal than Without”
Al Monitor
“Arab states worry over Senate's 'Jewish State' debate”
Defense News
“Kerry Pledges Defense of Gulf States, Israel Against Iran”
Iran News Update
“With Tensions Rising in Iranian Waters, Biden Acknowledges Possibility of War”
Washington Post
“Read In: Camden Yards Edition”
Commentary
“Snap Back Iran Sanctions? Don't Bet on It.”
Arutz Sheva
“Watch: Netanyahu Tells Washington 'No to Iran Nuclear Umbrella'”
Jewish Press
“The Biden/Kerry Push”
Israel HaYom
“Netanyahu: Iran deal will endanger Israel -- big time”