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The Atlantic Council. Welcome to everyone here and those who are watching as when he spent in her lifestream, i name is william. I laid the Atlantic Council work on the middle east. Im delighted to welcome you here today to if it cohosted by our strategy and security in our Global Business and economics programs economic sanctions initiative. This if it is on the record. Please tweet if you know so inclined and if so, please use the hashtag shaping sanctions. Today we are here of course to learn more about asthma and its finances. When he is one of the most sophisticated in the middle east. Iran patron has reportedly provided terrorist group we put hundreds of millions of dollars. Annually. This money has advanced the iranian agenda, undermining weapons political system and its delegate secretary and balance. Challe ....
Today we are here of course to learn more about asthma and its finances. When he is one of the most sophisticated in the middle east. Iran patron has reportedly provided terrorist group we put hundreds of millions of dollars. Annually. This money has advanced the iranian agenda, undermining weapons political system and its delegate secretary and balance. Challenging the world lebanese as the sole legitimate protector of the security. Providing on demand Ground Forces work irans work in syria. Maintaining a toptier terrorist capabilities in the region and really throughout the globe. And directly threatening israel. In addition to its direct financing from tehran, has law has built its own World Wide Network of from companies and operatives that facilitate the book human of romans and dual use goods for its activities again in web and on the world. Moreover some senior memb ....
Now, more than a year into the campaigns rollback and destroy isis, it is impossible to assert that isis is losing or that we are winning. To be sure, sure, there has been some tactical progress in putting a recent rick capture of romani. This is a testament to our leaders, but serious challenges remain. Isis has lost some territory but has consolidated power in its core territories in both iraq and syria. It maintains control of key iraq cities and art military commanders estimate that this key terrain will not be retaken this year. The un reports that since isis invasion of iraq in 2014, nearly 20000 iraq civilians have been killed, nearly 3500 people, predominantly women and children are estimated to be isis slaves in iraq. The secretary division in iraq is no surprise that the training of Iraq Security forces has been slow and the building of support for sunni tribal forces is even slower. In syria, there is no plausible strate ....
As choosing the option that said we would like a twostate solution so we can go on building our own oil or neighbors build their own. Its actually worse numbers that have appeared in similar polls in other years. Sometimes its been more 50 50 that even 50 50 isnt enough. There has to be a consensus on the palestinian side. It doesnt have to be 100 . There has to be a consensus that they will go for permanent peace. Permanent peace also means policing. If there is a palestinian state than you can allow it to be a base for attacks on neighboring states. Rather than look for blame in some day today in every action on the diplomatic front or on the settlement building front or on the military front that the essential question is who wants peace and he wants fighting . On that question, its pretty clear that the blame is today as it has been since the conflict began on one side. Thank you and with that can i ask members of the audience to join me in thanking joshua muravchik. [applause] he ....