Israel and the American Presidents: A Webcast Lecture Series

Mosaic is inviting our most loyal readers to join us for a unique intellectual experience.

Michael Doran is one of Mosaic’s—and the country’s—most thoughtful and influential analysts of America’s role in the world, with particular emphasis on the Middle East.

We’re delighted now to announce a new Mosaic lecture series with Dr. Doran that will tackle—for the first time—an even more ambitious topic: how every American president, from Harry Truman to Donald Trump, has understood and shaped America’s strategic relationship with Israel.

 

Join by Exclusive Webcast

 

There will be ten monthly sessions in all, and each can be attended by exclusive webcast. In case you’d like to mark your calendar, the dates of all ten lectures are given below. A link to each lecture’s webcast will be provided on this page and to our email subscribers on the day of the lecture.

 

The Dates: November 2017 to August 2018

 

Monday, November, 13, 2017: Truman

Monday, December 18, 2017: Eisenhower

Monday, January, 8, 2018: Kennedy and Johnson

Monday, February, 12, 2018: Nixon and Ford

In his January 8 lecture on Israel and the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Michael Doran, one of America’s most renowned foreign-policy analysts, showed how the U.S.-Israel relationship developed against the backdrop of the Kennedy assassination, the succession and re-election of President Johnson, the turmoil of the Vietnam war, the end of David Ben-Gurion’s second stint as Israel’s prime minister, and the Six-Day War that changed the landscape of the entire Middle East.

On Monday, February 12, moving forward in his series on Israel and the American presidents, Dr. Doran will bring us face to face with the momentous administration of Richard Nixon and his extraordinary Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the storied Israeli premiership of Golda Meir, and the unexpected shock of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. What concrete decisions did Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan face as Egypt breached Israel’s southern border? How did the unfurling war look from a Washington preoccupied by Soviet brinksmanship and the scandal of Watergate? What was the real purpose of Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy among Egypt, Syria, and Israel? How did Israel’s disengagement from Sinai contribute to its deepening strategic alliance with the United States?

Tuesday, March 13, 2018: Carter

Monday, April, 16, 2018: Reagan

Monday, May, 14, 2018: G.H.W. Bush and Clinton

Monday, June, 11, 2018: G.W.Bush

Monday, July, 9, 2018: Obama

Monday, August, 6, 2018: Trump

All lectures will start at 6:30 pm.

 

The Lecturer: Michael Doran

 

Michael Doran is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. He received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, and held high-level positions in the administration of George W. Bush. He appears frequently on television, and has published extensively in Mosaic, Foreign Affairs, The American Interest, Commentary, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. His most recent book is Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East.

 

The Location: Live Webcast

 

The lectures will be webcast live from the Tikvah Center in Manhattan. Recordings will be made available live and for five days after each lecture.

 

Questions?

 

Contact Mosaic’s editors at [email protected].