Welcome everyone to this very special event. On the half of the president who cant you hear today they are definitely here in spirit. Want to thank you all for attending and would like to acknowledge our chief program officer. Thank you. Tonights event is a very special event with a very special guests as well. Under the auspices of the jewish diplomatic corps the Flagship Program of the World Jewish Congress and its young professionals. Many of those members here are part of that network and its diplomacy and Public Policy on the behalf on behalf of the World Jewish Congress but more broadly we are all passionate about presenting the causes of the jewish people and to speak up on behalf of the people who represent them. I am also a member of the j. B. Court myself. Tonights event is organized under the title of the antiisrael agenda and they will analyze the program and offer ways to combat these ugly initiatives. And we are very happy that we have a special guest here tonight. We hav
So welcome to this very special event. Welcome to the World Jewish Congress. On behalf of the president and the ceo cant be here today unfortunately but theyre definitely here in spirit. We want to thank you for attending. I want to acknowledge our chief program officer. Thank you. Tonights event is a very special event with a very special guest as well. Its under the the World Jewish Congress and young professionals, many of those anybody members here are port or that nutwork network and its in the field of Public Policy and diplomacy on behalf of the World Jewish Congress and we are all passionate about the causes to represent the causes of the jew eu people and to speak up on behalf of the causes and represent them. Im a member of the jd corps myself. Tonights event is organized under the tiedle the antiisrael agent and well analyze the global efforts to delegitimize israel and how to combat these ugly initiatives, and we of very happy we have a special guest speaker here today. We
Program officer so tonight the event is a special event under the auspices of the jewish diplomatic corps to and from Young Professionals and those members here are a part of that network acting in the field of Public Diplomacy were all passionate of those causes of the jewish people to speak up on behalf that represent them. So tonights event is from the antiisrael agenda to beat to demise israel with those ways to combat and were very happy we have a special guest speaker here tonight so of 84 being here today. The with the jewish diplomatic corps also that new book and alex will take the floor from here and i will introduce him first originally bore it kiev ballet providence speaker and the media contributor of the arabisraeli conflict serves as the spokesman currently the director of Public Affairs at the executive council and then to bring together some of the finest minds of the israeli conflict with a review of how at has shifted with the global and local mostly in the corridors
Frankly, how do you see al qaeda today . I would like to begin with something that i think is underlying some of our different views of al qaeda. Your vision of the africa and so on and so forth. But in fact, al qaeda has always had a second that has taken up funding time and effort from the 1990s. In 99 of the funding was going to creating what they call guerrilla fighters. The longterm insurgency rather than the 1 that is being spent on external attacks, that is, terrorist attacks. If an organization spends 99 of its money on one effort and only 1 on the other effort, on what basis do we focus on that 1 versus the 99 . That 1 was aimed at us. And isnt that the important thing and it certainly is for americans. We dont Pay Attention to that or that messy stuff going on out there. Al qaeda said was their real objective. And that would replace them with people with the extremist version of sharia law. That is their underlying objective. Attacking america was in a means because they saw
Reasons. Laces we cannot deport people to, like cuba, for example. And our job is not to house these people, to house people strictly for criminal violations. That is our role. So if they have completed their senses through the u. S. Their sentences through the u. S. Criminal justice system, there is not much we can do. They focused on people who committed recent crimes. Unfortunately we are tight on time. We have been speaking with alan gomez from usa today. That is all the time we have today on washington journal. Join us tomorrow at 7 00 a. M. Eastern now we will head to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee taking a look at the recent elections in ukraine and its current impact on Foreign Relations in the country. Good morning. This hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. I want to welcome our panelists and thank them for taking time, for sharing their perspective on developments in the ukraine, which appear only slightly less ominous than they did in