[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if i could invite everyone to take your seats. We are right on time, so it is a great pleasure to invite my dear friend Ellie Cohanim and her fellow panelists for our second panel, enriching the u. S. Is really alliance by combating antisemitism. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. So wonderful to be here with you. And before we start i really want to just take a moment and thank the Heritage Foundation for dr. Kevin roberts and for victoria coates, who for a while has been thinking about holding this important conversation about the u. S. Israel relationship. And we were talking this weekend and she said she believes its Divine Providence because who knew how important this conversation would be at this moment in time . So again so grateful to victoria coates, to the Heritage Foundation for having us today. I want to start with introducing my esteemed panel here who im so honored to be monitoring this conversation. On the right is r
Group in the primary purpose is the Iranian Nuclear program neck you can watch the rest of this program if you go to cspan now you up. U. S. Israel alliance hosted by the Heritage Foundation here in washington d. C. Thank you all for joining us today for this profoundly timely event on the 75th anniversary of u. S. Israel alliance, i like to start with the prayer. Heavenly father, pray for our friends in israel and all americans that they stand with our israeli friends and the jewish people in this terrible time, we pray for your guidance and wisdom as we go through these discussions today and not only celebrate anniversary is required. The timing of this event because we have been talking about this for two years so we hoped to have it this may and i was upset what was rescheduled and felt like i failed but to be able to join together today and talk about these topics, talk about u. S. Israel Security Alliance and antisemitism two weeks after the horrific responsibility for heritage t
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