Officers. Theyll be offering remarks and laying a wreath at the police memorial. Well have live coverage starting here at is 11. And also the Senate Meeting at 3 00 today, working on Transportation Department nominationings. Live coverage here on cspan2. Thanks for everyone here who came on time, and i just want to give brief introduction. My names colin quinn, im the Deputy Director of communications here at csis. Thanks very much, colin. Normally when a president goes to israel, you have a very pleasant public profile, and usually an announcement of some new form of usaid or assistance to israel. The problem you have here is theres also a lot of underlying issues. And how many of these were actually either be dealt with publicly or during a president ial visit is pretty hard to estimate. Some of them are fairly obvious. There is the question of what will happen about moving the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. There are all the issues relating to the settlements. Will the u. S. Take a sta
It is set to begin. Thanks to everyone who came on time. Brief wanted to give instructions. I am the fud director of Strategic Communications here at csi. We will be taking a transcript. If youre like to ask questions, that would be great. Left, our chair of strategies will take us through the first portion of the trip. And our Deputy Director will take us through the remainder. After that, we will open up for questions. Without further do, i will turn it over to tony. Anthony there are a lot of underlying issues. How many will be dealt with is hard to estimate. Some are fairly obvious. The question of what will happen about moving the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. Issues relating to the settlements. Will be u. S. Take a stand on the twostate motion and if so, what . Will follow sequel the visit and how will he be discussing what is a very tense situation at least at the underlying level between israel andpalestinian authorities what is happening in gaza. For israele problem of what is h
Fellow will take us through the remainder. Following that well open up for questions so hopefully well get to opens. Without further ado, ill open it up to tony. Tony thank you, colm. Normally when a president goes to israel, you have a very of pleasant public profile and usually an announcement of some new form of u. S. Aid or assistance to israel. The problem you have here is theres also a lot of underlying issues and how many will be dealt with publicly or during a president ial visit is pretty hard to estimate. Some of them are fairly obvious. There is the question of what will happen about moving the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. There are issues relating to the settlements. Will the u. S. Take a stand on the twostate solution . If so, what . What kind of sequel will follow the abbas visit and how will he discussing a tense situation between israel and the Palestinian Authority and what is happening in gaza . There is the problem for israel of what is happening in egypt which is equ
And its surrogates, and thats hard. Announcer we will leave the remaining few moments of the discussion and go live now to a conversation on lone wolf terrorism hosted by the Washington Institute for middle east policy. Just getting underway here on a spin. Cspan. On good afternoon everybody. Good afternoon and welcome to the Washington Institute for our east policy, and program on counterterrorism and intelligence lecture series. It is my pleasure to have on the podium today, a speaker from israel, bruce hoffman, from Georgetown University, and an adjunct scholar here at the Washington Institute, and i am matthew levitt, director of the concert Counterterrorism Program here at the density. Thank you, for joining us. Terrorist acts conducted by individuals acting on their own, inspired by others, completely alone, not so much alone, it is not a new phenomenon. But for the past few years, weve seen an alarming increase. And a number of what some would describe as lone wolf actors, or of
Terrorist acts conducted by individuals acting on their own, inspired by others, completely alone, not so much alone, it is not a new phenomenon. But for the past few years, weve seen an alarming increase. And a number of what some would as lone wolves, lone offenders. E isis has been proactive in using their Global Social Media Presence in particular, to conscript individuals, some who have personal problems and some inspired by belonging to a higher cause, to commit acts in their name. Especially if they cannot be able to join the Islamic State, in its socalled caliphate, when that existed. It is now falling apart in iraq and syria. But meanwhile, in other parts of the world, and israel in particular, we are seeing a an sharp rise as well, of individuals taking it upon themselves to carry out acts of violence, without having being recruited by or trained by or armed or funded by an actual group. So the question for todays session is whether this is a looming threat, or a passing fad.